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> process by spawning 32000 processes). 
> Because of such and other reasons it might be a good idea to move to
> a 32-bit pid in the future, so that pid's will be unique for a process.
>
> This again might mean that the outside world must know as little
> as possible about the structure of a tid.

I would rather a 32bit pid and 32bit tid and seperate calls for each. Even
if for now we use the low and high 16 of the existing pid value we can
then fix it when we need lots of threads/tasks


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