Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:36:09 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD current users <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1 under -current :-) Message-ID: <200402061236.09834.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040206092208.GA52274@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402060026550.24232-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20040206092208.GA52274@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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On Friday 06 February 2004 04:22 am, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:37:30AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > [...] > > > apparrently programs in 1.1 can not handle that the PID can go past > > 32767 now.. 'wait()' for example fails.. > > > > ok , so recompile my kenrel with PID_MAX set to 30000 > > and try again.. > > all works fine.. > > > > I'm tempted to make PID_MAX a tunable or a sysctl.. > > I think FreeBSD 1.1 compatibility is obscure enough that there's no > need for it to work in out of the box (i.e. GENERIC) at the cost of > increased complexity in non-obscure configurations. Ideally, COMPAT_43 > would be broken up into COMPAT_43, COMPAT_FREEBSD[123], etc., removed > from GENERIC and perhaps then we could define PID_MAX conditionally > on these options or at least #error out. He didn't say that he wanted to stick PIX_MAD in GENERIC, just that he wanted it tunable. > > I think that some compatibility modes may have teh same problems > > (though I doubt that many people use anything other than Linux > > compatibility) > > As far as I know, only iBCS2 needs 16-bit bits. iBCS2 support would > be more productive dead, as would our obviously unused and untested > SVR4 support. Actually, people do use the SVR4 support (we hear about it on re@ from time to time). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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