Re: unique id generation

From: Omer Zak (omerz@actcom.co.il)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 10:54:11 EDT

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    In the various Unix variants, a similar problem exists when creating a new
    process and needing to assign it an unique ID (PID).
    It may be a good idea to review PID generation algorithms used in Linux.
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    On Sat, 17 May 2003, Tomas Frydrych wrote:

    > The way we generate id's for various things in the document, such as
    > headers, footnotes and lists is a real mess; in our code there are
    > three different methods used to create what are are supposed to be
    > unique id's:



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