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From: page@ulowell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ID-handler - unique-number generator - source and executables
Message-ID: <1384@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 16:38:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 16:38:53 1987
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell
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Keywords: mktemp gensym ID-handler ID:

qix@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Puckett) wrote:
>process IDs (being MsgPort addresses) are not necessarily unique on the Amiga

I bet the scheduler would be surprised to hear that!  Hmmm... is that why
we sometimes see Guru Meditation messages, the scheduler tries to schedule
two processes at the same time?  :-)

Of course process IDs are unique.  Actually you probably want Task IDs,
which the scheduler uses.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}