Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262389AbUKRCB5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:01:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262378AbUKRCBR (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:01:17 -0500 Received: from alog0084.analogic.com ([208.224.220.99]:31616 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262516AbUKQUlb (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:41:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:41:03 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz cc: kernel list Subject: Re: pid_max madness In-Reply-To: <419BB097.8030405@kde.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <419BB097.8030405@kde.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 954 Lines: 33 On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, 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 ?? > > -- > GJ > - Seems to set them back to 300 on this system Linux-2.6.9. That's an interesting side-effect. I like it! They never get much over 300 either! Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by John Ashcroft. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/