On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> There have been at least a few criticisms of this "feature" I've seen
> around (check the BUGTRAQ archives), and they all point out that this
> "feature" doesn't buy you much.  If the program is written safely in the
> first place, sequential PIDs are perfectly fine.  There is a penalty for
> using random PIDs, especially on slower platforms (this includes modern
> embedded CPUs!), and considering what little it buys you, that overhead
> isn't really worth it.

Which is why I didn't expect to get it commited; I'm running it on fairly
powerful hardware and I decided I'd share it with other people. I don't
have time to look through the source of every single program on my boxes.

Jared