Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> writes: >> and using a polling loop for uniquid is what I'd expect from php. > > Whether or not it's good, bad, or just ugly, it looks to me as though > it's exposed a bug.
Is it documented that gettimeofday has any particular resolution, or that successive values are unique? I don't think it is, and I remember it being normal to have it increase by 10 ms at a time, back when it was really cool to have a microVAX III instead of a II.