Comment 31 for bug 401823

This bug causes serious problems for some of us. In my case, (after bug 20254 was fixed) this is I believe the cause behind the way most of my firefox sessions terminate (after sometimes producing the disembodied windows mentioned in the first comment at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581526 )

So. Even if it's not possible to completely prevent an XID from being reused before it's processed, perhaps it could be made so unlikely that it won't happen in reasonable circumstances? I am thinking of the way process IDs work - each one is higher than the previous one assigned until it hits an integer limit and wraps back to 0, but any unallocated XIDs that old would hopefully not still be in queues.

I tried to take a look at the code but quickly came to the conclusion that this isn't something I personally could just jump into. So I don't know if it's a feasible suggestion or not - if not perhaps there could be some similar workaround to delay a given ID's reuse until it's simply unlikely to be a problem