Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:11:33 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues |
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Hi!
> > 1. weak security enhancement > > 2. cosmetic (backwards, IMHO) > > 3. speed (avoid PIDs likely to be used) > > Well, weak security enhancement translates to "nop" in my book, but > I guess if that's really what people were trying to arrange... >
Well, how many times did you do kill <pid> from command line after doing ps? If you randomly kill some other process because pids wrapped too fast, it is bad. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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