Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Dave Hamaker wrote:
>> Reasonable concerns.
>>
>> Patches essentially started at 100000-01. The highest-numbered patch
>> which has been submitted to this point is right now 137283-01. There
>> is probably a bigger risk of running out of 9-series numbers first, but
>> 8-series numbers certainly would still be available even if that did
>> occur.
>>
>> -Dave
>
> Given that we won't be using patch-ids for Solaris 11 forward, all
> concerns about running out of ids seem groundless given statistics
> over the last 18 years....
What we will, or will not, be doing for Solaris 11 is nothing except
pure conjecture at this point, particularly since there are no plans (at
least none that I'm aware of, and I believe none public in any case),
for Solaris 11. Whether a hypothetical Solaris 11 release would be
based on OpenSolaris and IPS remains to be seen.
That said, given the statistics, I agree that the concern now appears
groundless. :-)
-- Garrett
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> - Bart
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