Re: TODO list

Am Tuesday 06 January 2004 21:30 schrieb Jon Jensen:
> 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.

Linux >= 2.6 has random pids too.