Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932071AbWBJNWA (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:22:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751259AbWBJNV7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:21:59 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:30664 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751255AbWBJNV4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:21:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:21:51 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jesper Juhl cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" , Linux kernel Subject: Re: pid_t range question In-Reply-To: <9a8748490602091213p2e020355ue516d59b7d0b6c81@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <9a8748490602091213p2e020355ue516d59b7d0b6c81@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 700 Lines: 18 > >Any of those 3 scheemes should keep pids below 6 digits as much as >possible. We can still hit the cosmetic problem on boxes where more >than 99999 processes are actually running at the same time, but most >users will never encounter that. > I'd say let's remain doing whatever we're doing now. That is, a maximum of 32768 concurrent pids, and whoever needs more (e.g. Sourceforge shell, etc.) can always raise it to their needs. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/