Re: pid_max madness

[William Lee Irwin III]

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?


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