Re: Larger dev_t

From: Wichert Akkerman (wichert@cistron.nl)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2001 - 10:35:01 EST

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In article <UTC200103251231.OAA10795.aeb@vlet.cwi.nl>,
<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote:
>a large name space allows one to omit checking what part can be
>reused - reuse is unnecessary.

You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will
be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for example.

Wichert.

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