Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:29:53 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: Why wrapping PIDs is evil [was 32bit] |
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In <E12AMc1-0005FQ-00@the-village.bc.nu> Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: >> I forgot to mention: of course _pavel_ is evil and created/killed just >> enough processes for PIDs to wrap in bad way.
> Thats ok, with a 32bit pid_t he'll be a few days getting around to that
No, with 32bit pid_t it still will be just few minutes :-/ As Linus said pid_t will be enlarged in 2.4 but no PIDs > 32767 will be used :-(
It's Ok with me though...
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