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Re: a Message-ID proposal



On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:31:41PM +0100, Paul Walker wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:20:28PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
> > > PIDs just keep incrementing until the counter wraps. So that shouldn't
> > > be a problem.
> >  Not on OpenBSD.
> 
> There goes that theory. :-) OpenBSD re-uses PID numbers, or just picks a
> random one which isn't currently in use? (The latter sounds more like Theo,
> but you never know.)

Dunno what OpenBSD does, but NetBSD will try not to re-use the same
PID number 'very quickly', but it doesn't assign sequential numbers,
and, under 'stress', might re-issue an old number in an arbitrarily short
timeframe.

        David

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