Identifying special patches [PSARC/2009/012 FastTrack timeout 01/16/2009]

[Bart Smaalders]

Dave Hamaker wrote:
> Reasonable concerns.
> 
> Patches essentially started at 100000-01.  The highest-numbered patch
> which has been submitted to this point is right now 137283-01.  There
> is probably a bigger risk of running out of 9-series numbers first, but
> 8-series numbers certainly would still be available even if that did
> occur.
> 
> -Dave

Given that we won't be using patch-ids for Solaris 11 forward, all
concerns about running out of ids seem groundless given statistics
over the last 18 years....

- Bart


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