Re: pid_max madness

[Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:12:07PM +0100, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote:
>
> > Let's do:
> > #echo "-1" >/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
> > #cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
> > -1
> > #
> > Madness, isn't ?
> > I guess that isn't what author ment it to behave like.
> > Anyway, does it mean that after max unsigned value is reached pids are 
> > going to be negative in value ??
>
>
> Kernel version please?
all 2.6.x on intel86, this exact one is 2.6.9.
on 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 it doesn't change it anymore.

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GJ

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