sapling/eden/fs/utils/IDGen.h
Andres Suarez fbdb46f5cb Tidy up license headers
Reviewed By: chadaustin

Differential Revision: D17872966

fbshipit-source-id: cd60a364a2146f0dadbeca693b1d4a5d7c97ff63
2019-10-11 05:28:23 -07:00

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/*
* Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
*
* This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
* GNU General Public License version 2.
*/
#pragma once
#include <stdint.h>
namespace facebook {
namespace eden {
/**
* Very efficiently returns a new uint64_t unique to this process. Amortizes
* the cost of synchronizing threads across many ID allocations.
*
* All returned IDs are nonzero.
*
* TODO: It might be beneficial to add a parameter to request more than one
* unique ID at a time, though such an API would make it possible to exhaust
* the range of a 64-bit integer.
*/
uint64_t generateUniqueID() noexcept;
} // namespace eden
} // namespace facebook