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SubjectRe: Killing clones
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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes:

> Because of such and other reasons it might be a good idea to move to
> a 32-bit pid in the future, so that pid's will be unique for a process.

glibc already uses 32 bit PIDs. It's again up to the kernel to make
the move.

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