Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262377AbUKQUOi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:14:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262384AbUKQUNM (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:13:12 -0500 Received: from v6.netlin.pl ([62.121.136.6]:30476 "EHLO pointblue.com.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262403AbUKQUMd (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:12:33 -0500 Message-ID: <419BB097.8030405@kde.org.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:12:07 +0100 From: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kernel list Subject: pid_max madness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 512 Lines: 19 Let's do: #echo "-1" >/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max #cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max -1 # Madness, isn't ? I guess that isn't what author ment it to behave like. Anyway, does it mean that after max unsigned value is reached pids are going to be negative in value ?? -- GJ - 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/