wait() on a PID that is not your child

Posted Oct 10, 2011 19:01 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: wait() on a PID that is not your child by mezcalero
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

64 bit PIDs ought to be enough for anybody. If the system creates 10000
processes per second, the PIDs would overflow after 2^64/(60*60*24*365*10000) = 58494241 years.

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wait() on a PID that is not your child

Posted Oct 12, 2011 22:15 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] (1 responses)

> should be enough for anybody.

You didn't *really* expect to get away with that, here, did you?

:-)

wait() on a PID that is not your child

Posted Oct 12, 2011 22:49 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

It was worth a try.