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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: The same PID?
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:12:29 EDT
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>> (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!

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