Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes: >
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Gary Palmer wrote:
>
> > Since the PID and the time are in there, I doubt very VERY much that
> > the entire PID space can be cycled through in one second. Any other
> > gotchas I should be aware of? I'm smart enough to only have -q <time>
> > specified on one of the daemons :)
>
> I learned last week that on AIX, PIDs do not cycle. However, it seems
> that even AIX doesn't re-use the same PID in the same second.
And on any system, AIX or not, there's no guarantee that the pid of an
Exim process is a just-allocated pid. See the thread "How unique are exim
queue msg IDs?" from 2000-11-06.
