[net.lang.c] The same PID

cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) (08/29/85)

/*
> > (what happens when you get the same pid
> > as someone else did earlier?).
> 
> This can happen very easily:  Process X does a mktemp (or tmpnam), then
> execs another program that also wants to mktemp (or tmpnam).  It's still
> got the same PID!

Pretty sloppy program! Didn't even clean up its temporary files!

	jim		cottrell@nbs
*/
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