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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: New Random PID patch using arc4 available 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 03:15:47 EST."
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On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 03:15:47 EST, Dan Moschuk wrote:

> I've put another patch online that moves away from random() and uses
> arc4random() instead.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels stupid following this thread.
:-)

Could you explain the problems involved with linear PID allocation?  If
it's already been explained in published notes, just a reference to
those notes would be great.

Thanks,
Sheldon.


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