Jon Anglin <jang...@fortresgrand.com> added the comment: Just some information, on Windows: - process ids are re-used. - parent process id is set at process creation time and never updated. (Windows Internal 4th Ed. by Russinovich and Solomon).
Thus, I would say that a long running process can not rely on the value of its parent process id. The parent may not be running, or the process id may have been re-used and the process with that id may not be in fact the actual parent. Having said that, I don't know the algorithm that Windows uses for process ids, so collisions may be rare (or not). -Do these same issues exist on Unix systems? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6394> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
