Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:31:26 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: MAX_PID changes in 2.5.31 |
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Ingo Molnar writes: > > Linus, > > afaics, you did the PID_MAX changes in v2.5.31? This is a change i had for > (surprise) threading purposes already, but done a bit differently. > > The main problem is that there's the old-style SysV IPC interface > that uses 16-bit PIDs still. All recent SysV applications (linked > against glibc 2.2 or newer) use IPC_64, but any application linked > against pre-2.2 glibcs will fail. glibc 2.2 was released 2 years > ago, is this enough of a timeout to obsolete the non-IPC_64 > interfaces?
Are you saying that people running libc 5 or even glibc 2.1 will suddenly have their code broken?
Regards,
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