Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/11/00:01:03
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 11:50:41PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>As you noted, since global atoms can't do that consistently, they are
>worthless. What global atoms do seem to do is provide unique values
>across the system. Unfortunately, one session doesn't seem to be able
>to access another session's atoms even if the ids are unique.
Actually, on further experimentation, my uniqueness assumption isn't
true. I just managed to delete a system atom in my main login session
by using a global atom id derived from an ssh login.
So, the atoms are only unique within sessions. Bummer.
cgf
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