On 20/02/2008, Richard Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
The same caveats apply on Windows, which wasn't clear in Bram's help text. -- /George V. Reilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
