Re: [Exim] What to do about non-monitonic process ids

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Vadim Vygonets
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] What to do about non-monitonic process ids
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Vadim Vygonets wrote:

> But note that, on traditional
> UNIX systems, if a process which lived almost long enough for a
> PID to overflow overflow dies, the next process may get its PID.


That's true.

> Isn't the last number (-00) incremented in case a file exists?


Currently it is incrememted if an Exim process receives more than one
message in one second.

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