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by jasonhansel 1285 days ago
Annoyingly, what you can't always do is use it to uniquely identify a process. After a process exits, its PID can be reused. On Linux this (by default) only happens after PID 32767 is assigned, but generally it's implementation-defined. A rare edge case, of course, but it can have security implications.