Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:36:59 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: MAX_PID changes in 2.5.31 |
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Ingo Molnar writes: > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Are you saying that people running libc 5 or even glibc 2.1 will > > suddenly have their code broken? > > nope. Only if they use the 16-bit PID stuff in SysV IPC semaphores > and message queues.
In other words, "yes, unless you happen not to use SysV IPC semaphores or message queues in any of your binaries on your system". So you want to break binary compatibility. Please don't. I don't want to downgrade to glibc.
Regards,
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