On 7/25/12 9:44 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > One thing that just springs to mind: Under AIX, I believe (but don't take > this as gospel) that PIDs are not strictly ascending. The low byte may > increment, but it might be another byte in the pid_t that gets the > increment, and the byte that increments may alternate. I don't know if > anyone else does this, but I seem to remember that AIX does (or did).
That does not (or should not) matter. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/