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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:34:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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Subject: Re: MAX_PID changes in 2.5.31
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Are you saying that people running libc 5 or even glibc 2.1 will
> suddenly have their code broken?

nope. Only if they use the 16-bit PID stuff in SysV IPC semaphores and
message queues.

	Ingo

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