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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:21:15 +0200
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To: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> In article <UTC200103251231.OAA10795.aeb@vlet.cwi.nl>,
>  <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote:
> >a large name space allows one to omit checking what part can be
> >reused - reuse is unnecessary.
> 
> You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will
> be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for example.
> 
> Wichert.

Yes indeed. If my box, after continually spawning 1000000000 processes
per second for 500 years crashes because pid_t overflows, I'll think
about whether I should put the test back in, or should upgrade to a
128-bit machine.

Andries
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