Re: Larger dev_t

diego
2001-03-25T20:30:43Z

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes indeed. If my box, after continually spawning 1000000000 processes
> per second for 500 years crashes because pid_t overflows, I'll think
> about whether I should put the test back in, or should upgrade to a
> 128-bit machine.

this is a no point thread, we are not going to live 500 years? a 64 bits
space is more that we are going to need anyway...

Juan Diego