[Cryptography] Use process ID in mixing?

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "DH" == Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> writes:

DH> On other systems such as *BSD (and I include the Mac in that), there is 
DH> the getpid() call (get process ID) and getppid() (get parent's process 
DH> ID).  I have no idea why Linux abandoned them.

It didn't.  They are in <unistd.h>.

The linux man page says they conform to:  POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, SVr4.

-JimC
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