Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Tor Arntsen (tor@spacetec.no)
Mon, 31 May 1999 12:38:21 +0200

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In article <fa.j983g2v.1i7urqq@ifi.uio.no>,
Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com> writes:
>You've missed pid_t. I think we will see Linux on hardware big enough to
>easily outrun 32,000 simultaneous tasks soon. IRIX 6.5 has 32 bit pid_t:
>
> 456881 456881 mrw 20 2304K 1200K run/1 0:00 0.1 1.04 top

Same with AIX 4 (and uid_t/gid_t/dev_t are unsigned long)

-Tor

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