Re: pid_t range question

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > Any of those 3 scheemes should keep pids below 6 digits as much as
>> > possible. We can still hit the cosmetic problem on boxes where more
>> > than 99999 processes are actually running at the same time, but most
>> > users will never encounter that.
>> > 
>> I'd say let's remain doing whatever we're doing now. That is, a maximum of
>> 32768 concurrent pids, and whoever needs more (e.g. Sourceforge shell,
>> etc.) can always raise it to their needs.
>
> when you say 'continue doing what we are doing now' do you mean to include the
> hard-coded limit of 32K pids? or do you mean to not worry about the cosmetic
> issue and change the code to not hard-code the limit, but instead honor a
> max_pid >32K?
>
Stay with the 32K limit. I doubt the majority of users ever exceeds 
creating 32767 simultaneous processes.


Jan Engelhardt
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