Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-gr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: The same PID? Message-ID: <1567@utah-gr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:12:29 EDT Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1567 Posted: Fri Aug 23 16:12:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:23:16 EDT References: <867@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 13 >> (what happens when you get the same pid >> as someone else did earlier?). This can happen very easily: Process X does a mktemp (or tmpnam), then execs another program that also wants to mktemp (or tmpnam). It's still got the same PID! -- =Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA) "To feel at home, stay at home. A foreign country is not designed to make [one] comfortable. It's designed to make its own people comfortable." Clifton Fadiman