Re: [patch] Unlimited number of processes, x86, 2.1.131

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:23:26 +0100


In muc.lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
>bug reports, success reports, comments and suggestions welcome,

Very cool indeed.

One point: if you go >16k processes then SYSV ipc will have problems because
__kernel_ipc_pid_t is 16bit on most platforms. Worse is that this type
is exported to user space [in msqid_ds].

-Andi

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