[erlang-questions] How to introspect atom table?

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 21/11/2012, at 3:19 AM, Max Lapshin wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jachym Holecek <freza@REDACTED> wrote:
> # Max Lapshin 2012-11-20:
> > But there are only 32 000 of possible pids in unix, so it will limit amount
> > of different names.
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> I'm curious -- do you have a reference for this limit? POSIX doesn't seem to
> define pid_t range.
> 
> No, of course =)
> But I haven't ever seen 32 bit pid, so it is ok for this case. 

An actual transcript from the machine I am typing this on.

m% ps -a
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
25493 ttys000    0:00.10 login -pf ok
25494 ttys000    0:00.64 -bash
39476 ttys000    1:52.02 find /home/cshome/o/ok -name pperl.c -print
70511 ttys000    0:00.04 view UNPACK.S
25500 ttys001    0:00.01 login -pfq ok /usr/bin/ssh frege
25501 ttys001    0:03.10 -ssh frege
40195 ttys002    0:00.10 login -pf ok
40196 ttys002    0:00.88 -bash
83669 ttys002    0:00.32 /home/cshome/o/ok/local/lib/erlang/erts-5.6.3/bin/beam
55602 ttys003    0:00.03 login -pf ok
55603 ttys003    0:25.55 -bash
86257 ttys003    0:00.00 ps -a
59007 ttys004    0:00.02 login -pfq ok /usr/bin/ssh ok@REDACTED
59008 ttys004    0:00.90 -ssh ok@REDACTED

Almost all of those Unix pids exceed 32,000.
Two of them even exceed 16 unsigned bits.

This is a 4 GiB machine with a single user.