Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262548AbUKQVHu (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:07:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262543AbUKQVFn (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:05:43 -0500 Received: from v6.netlin.pl ([62.121.136.6]:37127 "EHLO pointblue.com.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262548AbUKQVBD (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:01:03 -0500 Message-ID: <419BBBB9.3030708@kde.org.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:59:37 +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: William Lee Irwin III Cc: kernel list Subject: Re: pid_max madness References: <419BB097.8030405@kde.org.uk> <20041117205024.GT3217@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20041117205024.GT3217@holomorphy.com> 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: 823 Lines: 27 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:12:07PM +0100, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote: > >>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 ?? > > > Kernel version please? all 2.6.x on intel86, this exact one is 2.6.9. on 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 it doesn't change it anymore. -- GJ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs - 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/