Does Netware have UUIDs or a similar thing?
Cheers,
-g
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:06:21PM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote:
> I checked with our CLIB people and they tell me that GetThreadID is *not* unique.
> In other words, if a thread is created, it is assigned an ID. If that thread is
>terminated and a new thread is created, the new thread may reuse the ID from the
>terminated thread.
>
> Brad
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:57:08 PM >>>
> Hi Bill,
> > From: "dean gaudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:45 AM
>
>
> >>
> >> but on windows you'll need to use both getpid() and GetThreadID... i
> >> think
> >> it's called something similar to that. it may be "Get Thread Handle" ...
> >> what you really want is the thread * that create_thread returns, or you
> >> could use the scoreboard slot, but i don't see an obvious way to get at
> >> either. also -- add an extra field to unique_id_rec for the thread id.
>
> > I suggest we add a gettid() if one does not exist, via the os.h/os.c for
> > MULTITHREAD platforms. Anyone who wants to hack on this, just assume it's
> > available, and where it isn't, someone needs to implement (I'm happy to do
> > so for Win32.)
> ok, sounds good. Then based on Dean's post and when Brad confirms that GetThreadID
>is always unique for NetWare we have only to add:
> #define gettid GetThreadID
>
> and in mod_unique_id.c we can remove the error warning and then change:
> pid = getpid();
> to:
> #ifdef MULTITHREAD
> pid = gettid();
> #else
> pid = getpid();
> #endif
>
> On the other side I saw that some other sources inside Apache use getpid(), is this
>not a problem there too? And if only Win32 has an insufficient getpid() definition,
>it may be enough to redefine this only there and leave all other as is...??
>
> Guenter.
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