Re: pid_t range question

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>
>Any of those 3 scheemes should keep pids below 6 digits as much as
>possible. We can still hit the cosmetic problem on boxes where more
>than 99999 processes are actually running at the same time, but most
>users will never encounter that.
>
I'd say let's remain doing whatever we're doing now. That is, a maximum of 
32768 concurrent pids, and whoever needs more (e.g. Sourceforge shell, 
etc.) can always raise it to their needs.


Jan Engelhardt
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