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From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: Check connect address in NETLINK
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:14:33 +0400
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Hello!

> Or we can set the disconnected pid to a negative value since POSIX
> requires pid_t to be signed.  I see that you've reserved everything
> between -4096 and 0.  So perhaps we can pick -1?

I think we can.

Alexey