> I'd like to put my +1 in for 32-bit UIDs.
>
> Now, about those 16 bit PID's... is it really fair to
> allow more users than threads or processes ?
> (Just kidding. At least for now.)
16-bit pids are biggest part of mj's clustering patches... He switches
to 32 bits then uses space as 8 bit machineid : 16 bit pid. My way to
make patch smaller was to make 2 bit machineid and 14 bits pid, but
that has rather ugly limitation.
Pavel
PS: So yes, even 16bit PID's are likely to be a problem soon...
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