Re: [PATCH] Fix a race in pid generation that causes pids to bereused immediately.

[tytso]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:43:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> We need that bitmap to handle the overflow max_pid case. We are _not_ 
> returning just increasing pid numbers.

Doh!  I knew I was forgetting something obvious.  I was hoping we
could get rid of the bitmap entirely, but I guess not....

(Unless users would stand for 64-bit pid numbers... no?  Dang. :-)

      	      	     	    	      - Ted
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