a quick question... i was playing with my sysetem, and i noticed that each process id for the same command running consequtively (like "ls;ls;ls;ls;<so on>) is incremented by one from the previous, like pid of first ls for example is 31200, second 31201, and so on. so my question is this. do these pid's get recycled in anyway? (why my ls wouldnt run with the same pid each time, if no other process uses that particular pid?) or do they keep on being incremented until some certain value, and then reset? thanks <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a quick question...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i was playing with my sysetem, and i noticed that each process id for the same command running consequtively (like "ls;ls;ls;ls;<so on>) is incremented by one from the previous, like pid of first ls for example is 31200, second 31201, and so on. so my question is this. do these pid's get recycled in anyway? (why my ls wouldnt run with the same pid each time, if no other process uses that particular pid?) or do they keep on being incremented until some certain value, and then reset?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY>
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