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From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: The same PID
Message-ID: <1105@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 15:07:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 15:07:17 1985
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/*
> > (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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