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From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: Manfred <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: minor bugs around fork_init
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:38:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001223233806.A886@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A44D3F3.522AD08A@colorfullife.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A44D3F3.522AD08A@colorfullife.com>; from manfred@colorfullife.com on Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:33:55PM +0100

On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:33:55PM +0100, Manfred wrote:

> * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use.
> In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to exhaust
> the 15 bit pid space.

Yes. I posted a patch for 31-bit pids once or twice.
There is no great hurry, but on the other hand, it is always
better to make these changes long before it is really urgent.

Andries
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-23 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-23 16:33 minor bugs around fork_init Manfred
2000-12-23 17:12 ` test13-pre4 fails to compile ebi4
2000-12-23 18:12   ` Kai Germaschewski
2000-12-23 22:38 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2000-12-24 20:23   ` minor bugs around fork_init Pavel Machek
2000-12-26 12:06     ` Manfred

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