<div>On linux a pid_t is 32 bits, but the limit is configurable. My Ubuntu 64 box says...</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max </div><div>32768</div></div><div><br></div><div>Dan.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Max Lapshin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:max.lapshin@gmail.com" target="_blank">max.lapshin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jachym Holecek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:freza@circlewave.net" target="_blank">freza@circlewave.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"># Max Lapshin 2012-11-20:<br>
<div>> But there are only 32 000 of possible pids in unix, so it will limit amount<br>
> of different names.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm curious -- do you have a reference for this limit? POSIX doesn't seem to<br>
define pid_t range.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>No, of course =)<br>But I haven't ever seen 32 bit pid, so it is ok for this case. <br></div></div></div>
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