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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz <gj@kde.org.uk>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pid_max madness
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:50:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041117205024.GT3217@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419BB097.8030405@kde.org.uk>

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?


-- wli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-17 20:53 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 [this message]
2004-11-17 20:59   ` Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz
2004-11-17 21:09     ` William Lee Irwin III

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