Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.18-rc2 Fix for get_pid hang | Date | Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:29:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> This was made against 2.4.18-rc2 but applies cleanly against > 2.4.18-rc4. This is a fix for a problem where if we run out of > available pids, get_pid will hang the system while it searches through > the tasks for an available pid forever.
Wouldn't it be a much cleaner patch to limit the maximum number of processes to less than the number of pids available. You seem to be fixing a non problem by adding branches to the innards of a loop.
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