On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >Also, I would like to see some kind of session identifier that is more
> >unique than pid, which wraps around. Ideally we could have 10{pid},
> >then then the pid wraps around, 20{pid), or something like that.
>
> This requires some thought. ISTM it wouldn't buy you much unless you
> made it persistent across server restarts, and possibly not even then.
And on OpenBSD (though no other platforms that I know of) the PID is a
random number, so there is no "wrapping" to begin with.
Jon
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