Cups job number approaching 1 million

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Nov 16 07:03:36 PST 2005


ed smith wrote:
> In a few weeks, we will print our 999,999 cups job.

Congratulations!

 > Does anyone know
> what number cups will use after that, ie, will it rollover to
> 1,000,000 or start at 0 again?  We have some scripts that may need
> adjustments. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

It will keep on counting until it hits 2^31-1 (2.1 billion or so),
at which point the job IDs will go negative.

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