Why not fix process ids?
Why not fix process ids?
Posted Sep 4, 2023 9:50 UTC (Mon) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)In reply to: Why not fix process ids? by corbet
Parent article: Race-free process creation in the GNU C Library
systemd has been bumping this value to the max the kernel allows btw for a longer time. Not a single complaint reached us about that. The incompatibilities turned out to be mostly theoretic.
That said the kernel max is 22bit or so iirc, i.e. far from 32 or even 64bit...
Posted Sep 4, 2023 10:12 UTC (Mon)
by pebolle (guest, #35204)
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That's correct (and thanks for confirming my reading of include/linux/threads.h).
Why not fix process ids?
> the kernel max is 22bit or so iirc,