Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:57:43 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues |
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* Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> wrote:
> I'd much prefer LRU allocation. There are > lots of system calls that take PID values. > All such calls are hazardous. They're pretty > much broken by design.
this is a pretty sweeping assertion. Would you care to mention a few examples of such hazards?
> BTW, since pid_max is now adjustable, reducing > the default to 4 digits would make sense. [...]
i'm not sure what you mean by 'now', pid_max has been adjustable for quite some time.
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