[asterisk-users] Incremented UniqueId

[Steve Edwards]

> On 4 Sep 2009, at 10:36, Guillaume Yziquel wrote:

>>> Uniqueid: asterisk-1252055630.26702
>>
>> I'm really wondering how the Uniqueid works. Why is it incremented? 
>> What is the dot for in the Uniqueid?

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Steve Howes wrote:

> The bit before the dot is a unix timestamp (Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:13:50 
> GMT in this case). The bit after the dot is.. randomish.. but 
> sequential.

The bit before the dot is the number of seconds since the great Unix 
Epoch.

The bit after the dot is the number of channels this instance of Asterisk 
has created. See channel.c, ast_channel_alloc().

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