Circa 2003-01-30 18:43:29 +0100 dixit Nico Erfurth:
: And whoever came up with random PIDs should be shot and buried on a moon
: far far away ;)
Disagree. There's some argument that unpredictable PIDs (they're not
really random, they're pseudorandom) might exhibit faster behavior on a
heavily loaded host with long uptime where the PID space is fragmented.
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