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From: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz <gj@kde.org.uk>
To: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: pid_max madness
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:12:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <419BB097.8030405@kde.org.uk> (raw)

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 ??

--
GJ

             reply	other threads:[~2004-11-17 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-17 20:12 Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz [this message]
2004-11-17 20:41 ` pid_max madness linux-os
2004-11-17 20:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-17 20:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-17 20:59   ` Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz
2004-11-17 21:09     ` William Lee Irwin III

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