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  • From: Jeff.Goodwin AT fairchildsemi.com
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Getting DB error = 20017 - Unexpected EOF from the server
  • Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:48:42 -0400

freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote on 03/19/2009 02:53:44 PM:
> You're never supposed to depend on the contents of a VMS process ID
> other than that it's "an opaque longword value," but generally
> speaking a system that has been up a long time and/or is a member of a
> cluster will be giving out bigger numbers as PIDs than one that
> isn't. For example, the cluster info is in the upper bits somewhere,
> so you get a big number.

Well, that makes more sense. If the hostprocess field is the process ID
on the client, clustered OpenVMS systems would always produce an 8
character PID. Since the Itanium test system we have is not clustered,
there are leading zeros in the PID that probably get stripped off.

-Jeff




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