Sorry for the dumb question, but what's the advantage of random PIDs?
Personally, I like sequential PIDs, since just by looking at the PID number
I know (ballpark figure) how many processes have run between process A
and B.. (ie. I know if I have to optimize my shell script or not).
To me, sequential PIDs can be treated as random, but with an really bad,
but cheap, generator algorithm.
So, what's the issue, really?
--george
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