atom feed57 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users[courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 break...
FromSent OnAttachments
Sam VarshavchikJan 13, 2003 3:46 pm 
Richard LyonsJan 13, 2003 5:57 pm 
D. J. BernsteinJan 13, 2003 6:11 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 13, 2003 9:11 pm 
Russell NelsonJan 13, 2003 9:46 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 13, 2003 10:19 pm 
Russell NelsonJan 13, 2003 11:11 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 13, 2003 11:35 pm 
James GravesJan 14, 2003 7:36 am 
mw-l...@csi.huJan 14, 2003 7:39 am 
Sam VarshavchikJan 14, 2003 3:22 pm 
mw-l...@csi.huJan 14, 2003 11:13 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 15, 2003 5:11 am 
Matthias AndreeJan 15, 2003 9:55 am 
Sam VarshavchikJan 15, 2003 3:11 pm 
Matthias AndreeJan 15, 2003 4:13 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 15, 2003 4:48 pm 
Johan LindhJan 15, 2003 10:16 pm 
Peter C. NortonJan 15, 2003 11:52 pm 
Bill MichellJan 16, 2003 1:30 am 
Johan LindhJan 16, 2003 2:00 am 
Matthias AndreeJan 16, 2003 2:22 am 
Bill MichellJan 16, 2003 2:28 am 
Matthias AndreeJan 16, 2003 2:28 am 
Matthias AndreeJan 16, 2003 2:45 am 
David LaightJan 16, 2003 3:14 am 
Sam VarshavchikJan 16, 2003 4:58 am 
Sam VarshavchikJan 16, 2003 5:01 am 
Johan LindhJan 16, 2003 6:28 am 
Bob JohnsonJan 16, 2003 7:42 am 
James GravesJan 16, 2003 8:18 am 
Alex...@nokia.comJan 16, 2003 8:58 am 
Bill MichellJan 16, 2003 9:06 am 
Johan LindhJan 16, 2003 9:45 am 
Matthias AndreeJan 16, 2003 9:46 am 
Matthias AndreeJan 16, 2003 9:47 am 
Liviu DaiaJan 16, 2003 12:17 pm 
mw-l...@csi.huJan 16, 2003 12:48 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 16, 2003 2:55 pm 
Matthias AndreeJan 16, 2003 3:11 pm 
Peter C. NortonJan 16, 2003 6:13 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 16, 2003 7:03 pm 
in...@lauwira.orgJan 16, 2003 10:20 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 17, 2003 4:47 am 
Matthias AndreeJan 17, 2003 7:55 am 
in...@lauwira.orgJan 17, 2003 8:41 am 
Saxon JonesJan 17, 2003 9:44 am 
in...@lauwira.orgJan 17, 2003 10:49 am 
mw-l...@csi.huJan 17, 2003 12:30 pm 
Sam VarshavchikJan 17, 2003 2:35 pm 
Mike LemoineJan 17, 2003 3:07 pm 
in...@lauwira.orgJan 17, 2003 3:12 pm 
Saxon JonesJan 17, 2003 3:44 pm 
in...@lauwira.orgJan 17, 2003 3:48 pm 
Matthias AndreeJan 18, 2003 5:05 am 
Matthias AndreeJan 18, 2003 5:06 am 
in...@lauwira.orgJan 20, 2003 9:57 am 
Subject:[courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.
From:Richard Lyons (fr@webcentral.com.au)
Date:Jan 13, 2003 5:57:40 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:45, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

It's been brought to my attention that OpenBSD 3.2 can assign the same pid to different processes in the same chronological second (that is, one process terminates, and its pid is immediately assigned to a new process that's created soon thereafter).

OpenBSD has used random PID generation since June 1997. Nothing in SuS/POSIX requires sequentially increasing PIDs.

to the generated maildir filenames. This'll tide things over, until OpenBSD begins recycling pids in the same microsecond.

Theoretically speaking (but statistically improbable) this is already the case.

Rick.