> Le 2015-05-26 00:10, Miod Vallat a écrit : > > It is not the responsibility of the operating system to protect its > > users against software which assumes using the pid as a random source > > is > > a bright and wise idea. > > Isn't this the whole goal of random PIDs, to put a defense at OS level > protecting software against themselves when they make wrong assumption > regarding the PID and use it for wrong purposes?
A 16 bit PID is suppsed to provide true safety? Please. The problem is people who believe that shoving a 16 bit value into a deterministic function gets them somewhere.
