On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > These are the approaches suggested so far. I added the last one as a > > combination of the others. Can we see a show of hands for the one > > Using rand is bogus. A random number generator will repeat values. > > Time (with sufficient resolution) is equivalent to a sequence ... but > with threads, you would need a lock on the sequence generator.
fqdn + time + peer TCP port will be pretty unique, regardless of whether you're forking, selecting, or threading. (fortunately, multiplexed SMTP does not yet exist.) Looks like remote_port is set in qpsmtpd-forkserver, at least.. James
