Sean
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:40:37PM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote:
> OpenBSD has a working implementation, might be worth looking at???
>
> Cheers,
> Matt Johnston.
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:34, Heusden, Folkert van wrote:
> > >> My code runs trough the whole task_list to see if a chosen pid is
> > >> already
> > >>
> > >> in use or not.
> > >
> > > But it doesn't check for a recently used PID. Lets say your system is
> > > exhausting 1000 PIDs/second, and that there is a window of 20ms between
> >
> > you
> >
> > > determining which PID to send to, and the recipient process receiving it.
> >
> > Ah, I get your point. Good point :o)
> >
> > I was thinking: I could split the PIDs up in 2...16383 and 16384-32767 and
> > then
> > switch between them when a process ends? nah, that doesn't help it.
> > hmmm.
> > I think random increments (instead of last_pid+1) would be the best thing
> > to do then?
> >
> >
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