Re: pid_max madness

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 15:55:26 EST


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:12:07 +0100, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz said:

> Anyway, does it mean that after max unsigned value is reached pids are
> going to be negative in value ??

No, because something in the /proc drivers will die of indigestion *much*
sooner (I think it's some very low value like 64K or 128K on i386?)

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