Alan Cox wrote:
> Do libc5 and glibc give the illusion of a 32bit pid - I thought they didnt
Glibc pid_t is 32 bits on i386:
typedef int __pid_t; /* Type of process identifications. */
The IPC stuff is special-cased:
/* Used in `struct shmid_ds'. */
typedef unsigned short int __ipc_pid_t;
I am on for increasing pid_t size simply because 32000 processes may
become a bottleneck on large servers. The restriction isn't necessary
any more. `top' will be pretty slow though.
-- Jamie
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