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From: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
Date: 25 Mar 2001 17:35:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <99l375$rn5$1@picard.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200103251231.OAA10795.aeb@vlet.cwi.nl>

In article <UTC200103251231.OAA10795.aeb@vlet.cwi.nl>,
 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote:
>a large name space allows one to omit checking what part can be
>reused - reuse is unnecessary.

You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will
be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for example.

Wichert.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-25 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-25 12:31 Larger dev_t Andries.Brouwer
2001-03-25 15:35 ` Wichert Akkerman [this message]
2001-03-25 16:15   ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2001-03-25 16:54     ` Michel Wilson
2001-03-25 17:12       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-25 17:00     ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-25 17:07     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-03-25 17:37       ` Michel Wilson
2001-03-25 18:21   ` Guest section DW
2001-03-25 20:50     ` diego
2001-03-25 17:55 ` Gerry
2001-03-27  6:03 ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-03 14:48 Wayne.Brown
2001-04-03 15:34 ` Bart Trojanowski
2001-04-02 21:59 Andries.Brouwer
2001-04-02 20:17 Andries.Brouwer
2001-04-02 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03  7:28 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-03 10:09 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-03 12:06   ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 12:20     ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-03 12:15       ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-03 12:53         ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 16:05           ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-03 16:34             ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-03 16:58               ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-03 16:54             ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 17:02               ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-03 12:41       ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 23:28       ` Tim Wright
2001-03-27 22:38 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-27 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27  9:29 Andries.Brouwer
2001-03-27 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-27 19:28   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27 19:51     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-27 21:21       ` Alan Cox
2001-03-27 21:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-27 22:02           ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-27 23:57             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-28 21:23               ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-28 21:40                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-28 21:44                 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-27 22:16           ` Alan Cox
2001-03-27 22:16             ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27 22:43               ` Russell King
2001-03-28 16:59                 ` Jeff Randall
2001-03-28  0:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-28  0:10               ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-28  0:24                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-28  2:19               ` Alan Cox
2001-03-28  7:08                 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-28 21:32                 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-29  3:53                   ` Alan Cox
2001-03-29 11:02                     ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-02 20:02                       ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03  7:25                         ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-03 12:19                           ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 12:13                             ` Martin Dalecki
2001-04-03 12:38                               ` Alan Cox
2001-04-04  8:08                                 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-03-30  6:54                   ` Kai Henningsen
2001-03-28 21:18             ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-27 22:13         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27 22:55           ` Dan Hollis
2001-03-27 22:58             ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-27 23:42               ` Richard Gooch
2001-03-28  1:03             ` Paul Jakma
2001-03-28  1:35               ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-27 23:44           ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-03-28  0:28             ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-03-28  3:58           ` Johan Kullstam
2001-03-28  4:23             ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 11:57             ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 18:13               ` Oliver Neukum
2001-03-28 19:05                 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 19:50                   ` Oliver Neukum
2001-03-28 21:36             ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-28 21:09           ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-28 21:24             ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-28 21:46               ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 20:54     ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-28 11:52   ` Pjotr Kourzanoff
2001-03-28 12:11   ` Tim Jansen
2001-03-27 19:27 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-03-26 21:18 John Byrne
2001-03-26 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-26 23:41 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-24 16:13 Andries.Brouwer
2001-03-24 14:25 Andries.Brouwer
2001-03-24 14:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-24 15:00   ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-25 14:22   ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-25  3:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-25 14:35   ` Martin Dalecki

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