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Subject: Re: 16-bit pids? (was Re: 16, 32, and 64bit types?)
To: mpp@mpp.minn.net (Mike Pritchard)
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> I suspect that the 30000 limit is left over from times gone
> by when pid_t was not a long.

And was shared as a short via NFS as part of the client credentials.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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