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To: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz <gj@kde.org.uk>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pid_max madness 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:12:07 +0100."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:12:07 +0100, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz said:

> Anyway, does it mean that after max unsigned value is reached pids are 
> going to be negative in value ??

No, because something in the /proc drivers will die of indigestion *much*
sooner (I think it's some very low value like 64K or 128K on i386?)


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