Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 15 Aug 1997 03:56:27 -0400 | | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | | Subject | Re: Killing clones |
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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: 14 Aug 1997 18:54:24 +0200
> 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.
In general this brings up the question of whether we want to enforce a requirement that people upgrade to glibc when we move forward to the 2.2 kernel.....
- Ted
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