Re: [Ids-devel] RE: ids-0.7a10 available

[Caleb E. <ca...@bk...>]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:31:28PM -0400, John Moose wrote:

> Does anyone know how $$ (process ID) works on non-UNIX systems? This
> is used along with a random number to create a unique file name in
> the replace_file function. It would probably be a good idea to take
> that out if there are portability problems.

	At least on Windows, this is also a process ID which will be
	unique for any process running at that time, so you should be
	pretty safe:

[15:37:57] c:\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin>perl -d -e1
Default die handler restored.

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.07
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `perldoc perldebug' for more help.

main::(-e:1):   1
  DB<1> print "$^O $$\n"
MSWin32 356

  DB<2>

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