Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:13:06 -0700 | | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | | Subject | Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:27:52AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I'd suggest pushing for 64-bit+ pid's, then. IIRC most of the work >> there is in userspace (the in-kernel part is trivial).
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:51:48PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > except for the various 'assumptions' done in procfs > to create the inode numbers ... but that is a different > story ...
The overflow conditions in there are ugly and need someone willing to do more intensive work with that code to address them. It's not difficult per se, merely a lot of grubbing around with ugly code.
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