Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 24 Dec 2000 21:23:31 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: minor bugs around fork_init |
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Hi!
> > * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use. > > In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to exhaust > > the 15 bit pid space. > > Yes. I posted a patch for 31-bit pids once or twice. > There is no great hurry, but on the other hand, it is always > better to make these changes long before it is really urgent.
On 2Gig machine, you should be able to overflow 16 bits. So it is quite urgent. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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