[cvsnt] Re: postcommit file

[Tony Hoyle]

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