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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Unique PIDs (sys3 win!)
Message-ID: <1166@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-May-86 18:58:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  1 18:58:14 1986
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Quoted from <266@brl-smoke.ARPA> ["Pids"], by rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (root)...
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| 4) My solution is to have a flag (pidwrap) which is set at the obvious time.
|    If the flag is clear, *why search at all*? If not, do it the hard way.
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Boo hiss.  System III has a MUCH faster way, requiring only short searches at
the end of the line (not a flag).  But I suppose it wan't in 32/V, so I can't
speak more clearly without the nod from AT&T...

--Brandon
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