Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:38:43 +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. > > when you say 'continue doing what we are doing now' do you mean to include the > hard-coded limit of 32K pids? or do you mean to not worry about the cosmetic > issue and change the code to not hard-code the limit, but instead honor a > max_pid >32K? > Stay with the 32K limit. I doubt the majority of users ever exceeds creating 32767 simultaneous processes.
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