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DateSun, 16 Jan 2000 23:11:39 -0500 (EST)
FromAlexander Viro <>
SubjectRe: Linux 2.3.39 has 32bit uid. What about 32bit pid?


On 16 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> We could start using 32-bit pid's any day, but for (a) /proc and (b) I'm
> not sure what makes sense in a cluster. Do we want to have the high bits
> be just high bits, or do we want them to be cluster machine ID, or do we
> want them to be thread-ID related?

procfs shouldn't be a serious issue anymore...


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