From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
cw@f00f.org, mingo@elte.hu, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:13:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914021306.GJ9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913145148.GD1774@MAIL.13thfloor.at>
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:27:52AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I'd suggest pushing for 64-bit+ pid's, then. IIRC most of the work
>> there is in userspace (the in-kernel part is trivial).
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:51:48PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> except for the various 'assumptions' done in procfs
> to create the inode numbers ... but that is a different
> story ...
The overflow conditions in there are ugly and need someone willing to
do more intensive work with that code to address them. It's not
difficult per se, merely a lot of grubbing around with ugly code.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-14 2:16 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 [this message]
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
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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