Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:20:36 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix a race in pid generation that causes pids to be reused immediately. |
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Isn't: return a - base < b - base, the natural way to express this?
Quite possibly. I'd worry about the overflow case a bit, but it's certainly going to get the right value when base << MAX_INT.
Linus
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