Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:21:51 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: pid_t range question |
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> >Any of those 3 scheemes should keep pids below 6 digits as much as >possible. We can still hit the cosmetic problem on boxes where more >than 99999 processes are actually running at the same time, but most >users will never encounter that. > I'd say let's remain doing whatever we're doing now. That is, a maximum of 32768 concurrent pids, and whoever needs more (e.g. Sourceforge shell, etc.) can always raise it to their needs.
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