From: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz <gj@kde.org.uk>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pid_max madness
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:59:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <419BBBB9.3030708@kde.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041117205024.GT3217@holomorphy.com>
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:12:07PM +0100, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote:
>
>>Let's do:
>>#echo "-1" >/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
>>#cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
>>-1
>>#
>>Madness, isn't ?
>>I guess that isn't what author ment it to behave like.
>>Anyway, does it mean that after max unsigned value is reached pids are
>>going to be negative in value ??
>
>
> Kernel version please?
all 2.6.x on intel86, this exact one is 2.6.9.
on 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 it doesn't change it anymore.
--
GJ
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-17 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-17 20:12 pid_max madness Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz
2004-11-17 20:41 ` linux-os
2004-11-17 20:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-17 20:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-17 20:59 ` Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz [this message]
2004-11-17 21:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
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