Re: Cheap and unique

[Steve Piner]

David Jacobs wrote:
> 
> I'm converting a few CGI scripts that used the PID as a cyclical unique
> number (in concert with TIMESTAMP - so it was TIMESTAMP.PID).
> 
> Our goal is to find a replacement function that is extremely cheap
> (cheaper than say, random(1000000)) and will never repeat. Any ideas?
> Has anyone else faced this problem?
> 
> tia
> David

I'm just curious - what's wrong with the function you're already using?

Steve

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Steve Piner
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