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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...


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Why not fix process ids?

Posted Sep 4, 2023 10:12 UTC (Mon) by pebolle (guest, #35204) [Link]

> the kernel max is 22bit or so iirc,

That's correct (and thanks for confirming my reading of include/linux/threads.h).


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