Jon Jensen wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>This requires some thought. ISTM it wouldn't buy you much unless you
>>made it persistent across server restarts, and possibly not even then.
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>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.
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OK, so a sessionid based on prefix+pid won't work portably. If we
*really* want to do it, a cluster-wide sequence generator would probably
be the way to go, but I suspect that with the ability to log session
termination explicitly (which I have already provided) much of the
supposed extra utility would disappear anyway.
cheers
andrew