From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
wli@holomorphy.com, cw@f00f.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:57:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040913075743.GA15722@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095045628.1173.637.camel@cube>
* Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> wrote:
> I'd much prefer LRU allocation. There are
> lots of system calls that take PID values.
> All such calls are hazardous. They're pretty
> much broken by design.
this is a pretty sweeping assertion. Would you
care to mention a few examples of such hazards?
> BTW, since pid_max is now adjustable, reducing
> the default to 4 digits would make sense. [...]
i'm not sure what you mean by 'now', pid_max has
been adjustable for quite some time.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-13 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 3:20 /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues Albert Cahalan
2004-09-13 7:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-13 14:11 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-13 14:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-13 14:51 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-14 2:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-23 13:13 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-24 16:02 ` Martin Mares
2004-09-23 13:11 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-13 7:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-09-13 13:54 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-13 14:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-13 14:54 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-14 2:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 15:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-18 18:32 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-23 13:18 ` Pavel Machek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-12 8:56 Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 9:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 9:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 10:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 10:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 10:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 11:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 11:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 17:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 18:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-12 23:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 9:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 12:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-12 12:30 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 12:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-12 13:34 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 13:41 ` Ingo Molnar
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