Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:20:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 16-bit pids? (was Re: 16, 32, and 64bit types?) Message-ID: <199508312021.WAA27457@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950831154200.15535U-100000@aries> from "Brian Tao" at Aug 31, 95 03:43:14 pm
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As Brian Tao wrote: > > > In the past I've been involved in some projects where pid collisions > > due to pid wrap was a problem. > > Oh hmmmm, wow... doesn't FreeBSD have a global process limit of > some sort? I know I've seen "No more processes" on BSD/OS and SunOS > systems, even though the user maxproc limit had not been reached. That's not the problem. The actual problem are long-living processes that cause collisions since you expect temp files like /foo/bar/file.<pid> to be unique within the system. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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