"Ph. Marek" wrote:
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> Sorry - message got broken my mailer ...
> -
>
> Hi Linus, hi Alan, hi everybody else not explicitly mentioned,
>
> here's a patch for testing (comments please cc: to me) and
> inclusion for the 2.3 series (if believed to be ok).
>
> Short summary:
> More and more programs (eg CGI-Scripts) use the PID as pseudo-random number.
Woah!!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha. You saved my day really!
Let me guess those programms are in perl?
> As this isn't really random and easily guessed from the outside (esp. with
> daemons loaded while booting) it's a little bit troublesome.
> My patch allows some kind of modification to the current routing which just
> increments the last pid until a free pid is found.
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