On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:23:58PM -0700, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > would be the way to go: 64^6 = 2^36 possibilities which is nice...
>
> 1) Just totally opposite: mixing random with non-random sources you'll get
> into collision much faster then with random source only. 2) Yet, of course,
> the code handles collisions.
Part 2) need to be clarified too. The code _attempt_ to handle collision,
but collision race can occurse between two processes checking for collision,
so getpid() insertion prevents this. I am not against of removing
getpid() code totally, just against of "randomization" of it, suggested in
the patch, which increase collision chance.
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