From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 17:22:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA02535 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:22:43 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA02528 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:22:40 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA29796 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 02:22:35 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA16136 for hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 02:22:34 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA27457 for hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:21:00 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508312021.WAA27457@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 16-bit pids? (was Re: 16, 32, and 64bit types?) To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:20:58 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Aug 31, 95 03:43:14 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 665 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. 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. ;-)