Re: Session IDs & LUID point to consider.

From: Linda Walsh (law@sgi.com)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 14:44:32 EST

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Linda Walsh wrote:

> So...
> anyone have a problem with a 64-bit value -- that should be fairly unique in our
> lifetimes. :-)

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    A point I forgot to ask about...Um.  It wouldn't appear that any kernel calls return more than
32 bits.  I haven't thoroughly examined the code yet, but is it possible and/or feasible for a kernel
call to return a 'unsigned long long' as a return value?  Else we'd have to pass in a pointer.
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