Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 04:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/34155: mistake in Handbook Section 3.5 Processes Message-ID: <200201221220.g0MCK3s35575@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To: Marian Cerny <cerny@spnv.sk>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/34155: mistake in Handbook Section 3.5 Processes
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:13:23 +0200
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:47:29AM -0800, Marian Cerny wrote:
>
> >Number: 34155
> >Category: docs
> >Synopsis: mistake in Handbook Section 3.5 Processes
> >Originator: Marian Cerny
> >Release: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE
> >Organization:
> private
> >Environment:
> FreeBSD ivetka 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 PDT 2001
> murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
> >Description:
> In Handbook, Section 3.5 - Processes:
>
> > As you can see in this example, the output from [12]ps(1) is organized
> > in to a number of columns. PID is the process ID discussed earlier.
> > PIDs are assigned starting from 1, go up to 65536, and wrap around
> ^^^^^
> > back to the beginning when you run out. TT shows the tty the program
> > is running on, and can safely be ignored for the moment. STAT shows
>
> This is confusing. In the example above (output from ps) is
> "72210 p0 R+ 0:00.00 ps",
> ^^^^^
> and in the example below (outpout from top) is
> "last pid: 72257; load averages: 0.13, 0.09, 0.03 up 0+13:38:33 22:39:10"
> ^^^^^
>
> So after a while of investigation I found out that on my computer there
> also are processes with PID higher than 65536. The highest value I have
> seen was 99651. After a while, new processes got numbers around 500.
>
> So I think that "65536" should be changed to "99999", if 99999 is the
> right value.
Yep, 99999 is the correct value, as witnessed by the PID_MAX constant
in <sys/proc.h>.
Patch attached for the convenience of doc committers.
G'luck,
Peter
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I am not the subject of this sentence.
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<para>As you can see in this example, the output from &man.ps.1; is
organized in to a number of columns. <literal>PID</literal> is the
process ID discussed earlier. PIDs are assigned starting from 1, go up
- to 65536, and wrap around back to the beginning when you run out.
+ to 99999, and wrap around back to the beginning when you run out.
<literal>TT</literal> shows the tty the program is running on, and can
safely be ignored for the moment. <literal>STAT</literal> shows the
program's state, and again, can be safely ignored.
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