On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, James W. Abendschan wrote: > 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.)
whoops; s/fqdn/peer IP/ James
