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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ID-handler - unique-number generator - source and executables
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 13:09:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 13:09:13 1987
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qix@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Ed Puckett) wrote:
>Does a Task ID ever get reused from reboot to reboot?  If not,
>then ID-handler is unnecessary, and Task IDs will work fine.

They get reused.  How about task ID + timestamp?  That should be
pretty unique.

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