Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:17:11 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: PIDs limited to 15 significant bits |
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:53:05PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
[The patch is available. There are a few security advantages. Also, it makes a fork a just measurable fraction of a percent faster.]
How does it make it faster? The only thing I can see is it might remove the heuristic we have for when PIDs wrap -- which technically we still need.
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