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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:42:09 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote: >>Or use $COMMITID, which should always be unique... >> >>Tony >Rats, >when was that introduced? Did I work in vain?... Build 66 or 68 I think. >I have dived firly deep into Windows API to use the PID (which is not >unique even across some minutes) to grab the process start time in the >100ns tick counter and use that as a unique identifier for the >process. Actually I use the lower 32 bits of that as the ID... > >BTW: >When was $CVSPID introduced? That goes back a long way, when I was originally trying to get the commit_prep.pl script to work here & found that there was not parent process ID in win32. Tony