Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:30:10 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nextpid -> lastpid Message-ID: <01061209301015.02054@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <xzp7kyiyl9f.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzp7kyiyl9f.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Monday 11 June 2001 19:33, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > The attached patch renames nextpid to lastpid, since most of the time, > that's what it is: the PID of the most recently started process > (though there is occasionally a very brief window during which it is > the PID of a process that hasn't yet started, but is about to). It > also externalizes it so linprocfs can access it without having to > resort to kernel_sysctlbyname(). In proc.h it's still called nextpid. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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