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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by lmm on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:49PM (#30067278)
How does systemd make sure it never reuses a cgroup, OOI? If you're worried about PIDs wrapping, surely that applies to anything randomly-generated as well.
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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by fullstop on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:52PM (#30067308)
It's derived from the service name, which is guaranteed to be unique. It's similar to how names need to be unique in /etc/init.d/
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