From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, sn_@gmx.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Improve portability: Cast pid_t's to intmax_t
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:54:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buood382qlq.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080901082801.29621.qmail@science.horizon.com> (George Spelvin's message of "Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:28:01 -0400")
"George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> writes:
> You can be paranoid if you like and cast to long, but I don't think
> even a massive 64-bit cluster is likely to have more than 2G processes
> in the forseeable future.
But it isn't it possible for some OS to use a sparse PID namespace?
-Miles
--
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think we think.
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2008-09-01 8:28 [PATCH v2] Improve portability: Cast pid_t's to intmax_t George Spelvin
2008-09-01 8:54 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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