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From: friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How can a parent find out if one of its children is still alive
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Date: 7 Jun 90 14:27:04 GMT
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In article <42180@brunix.UUCP>, tcl@cs.brown.edu (Tom Lawrence) writes:
> I'd like to point out that pid numbers aren't recycled for a while. It
> may take quite a long time on a machine which is relatively unused.

Be careful with this one -- the 3B15 running Sys V Rel 3 recycles PIDs
very quickly (certainly not in a circular manner) and it can surprise
you -- it surprised me.  Other machines might recycle soon too.

     Steve

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