req.xid semantics?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Sep 5 10:10:41 CEST 2009


In message <20090904235827.GA6403 at digdug.corp.631h.metaweb.com>, Niall O'Higgin
s writes:

>I am looking for some sort of VCL identifier which I can use to
>disambiguate requests which occur within the same second, but in
>different threads.

That is indeed what req.xid is for.

It starts from a random value on startup, and each request gets a
unique value.


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