Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268765AbUIXOQP (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:16:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268786AbUIXOQP (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:16:15 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:51378 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268765AbUIXOQM (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:16:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:11:33 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: William Lee Irwin III , 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: <20040923131132.GP467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <1095045628.1173.637.camel@cube> <20040913074230.GW2660@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040913074230.GW2660@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: 741 Lines: 20 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 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 - 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/