Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand, if procmail followed djb's (suggested) rules for naming
> > convention, it's guaranteed not to collide with any process anywhere in
> > the known universe at any point in the lifetime of the universe(1). You
> > could
>
> Unless the same PID gets reused within one second... That may sound silly
> today, but it's possible well within the lifetime of the universe -
> especially if Moore's Law continues.
By the time we have to worry about wrapping 16-bit PIDs in one second,
we'll be using 32-bit PIDs. No worries.
Charles
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