On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Tony Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You mean that it is not the process ID of the Vim process? > > No, what he meeans is: after a process exits, its PID may (usually not > immediately) be reused for another process, started after the first one has > exited. OTOH, on Linux the PID is unique in the sense that no two > simultaneous > processes can have the same PID. Exactly. So if you were to create a permanent save file of whatever based on that number, you could lose data. Granted that it's unlikely, but clarification in the help file can't hurt. RIchard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
