Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268775AbUIXOQU (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:16:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268786AbUIXOQU (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:16:20 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:51634 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268775AbUIXOQM (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:16:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:13:12 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: William Lee Irwin III , mj@ucw.cz Cc: Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel mailing list , cw@f00f.org, mingo@elte.hu, anton@samba.org Subject: Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues Message-ID: <20040923131312.GQ467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <1095045628.1173.637.camel@cube> <20040913074230.GW2660@holomorphy.com> <1095084688.1173.1329.camel@cube> <20040913142752.GC9106@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040913142752.GC9106@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 18 Hi! > > With per-user PID recycling, it would be difficult for > > him to grab the desired PID. > > I'd suggest pushing for 64-bit+ pid's, then. IIRC most of the work > there is in userspace (the in-kernel part is trivial). Actually 64-bit pids would be very nice for clustering. mj did that once, IIRC, maybe he still has a patch? -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - 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/