Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2000 23:11:39 -0500 (EST) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.3.39 has 32bit uid. What about 32bit pid? |
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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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