Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266351AbUIMH6L (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 03:58:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266357AbUIMH5n (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 03:57:43 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:62858 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266351AbUIMH5U (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 03:57:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:57:43 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel mailing list , wli@holomorphy.com, cw@f00f.org, anton@samba.org Subject: Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues Message-ID: <20040913075743.GA15722@elte.hu> References: <1095045628.1173.637.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1095045628.1173.637.camel@cube> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 23 * Albert Cahalan wrote: > I'd much prefer LRU allocation. There are > lots of system calls that take PID values. > All such calls are hazardous. They're pretty > much broken by design. this is a pretty sweeping assertion. Would you care to mention a few examples of such hazards? > BTW, since pid_max is now adjustable, reducing > the default to 4 digits would make sense. [...] i'm not sure what you mean by 'now', pid_max has been adjustable for quite some time. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/