Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:42:10 +0100 | From | Adam Sampson <> | Subject | Re: PIDs limited to 15 significant bits |
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On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:48:41PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > I see you don't remember the original post. It argued in > favor of a large PID space "because the output of ps wouldn't > look nice otherwise"!!! (the poster wanted output sorted by > start time without using --sort=start to ask for it)
Why not use 32-bit PIDs in the kernel, but make the number at which they wrap a configurable option? That way, most users can keep the numbers small for ease of management, and people who really need 100,000 processes can have them.
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Adam Sampson azz@gnu.org
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