"W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <wwgrol(_at_)sparc01(_dot_)fw(_dot_)hac(_dot_)com>
wrote:
If you are using the PID without other "uniquifiers" for a file name
which will persist for a while, then even if you have only one host,
eventually the PID will be repeated.
This isn't a theoretical concern, it can be a real problem. I have
worked on very fast multiprocessors on which processes started, ran,
and completed so quickly that process numbers were reused every 5
minutes.
-Alan Hamilton <alan(_at_)spdcc(_dot_)com>