Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:15:09 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/10530: intro(2) pid range out of date Message-ID: <E10KnVd-000P1g-00@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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>Number: 10530
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: intro(2) pid range out of date
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 10 10:20:02 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ben Smithurst
>Release: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
Any version with PID_MAX increased to 99999
>Description:
intro(2) states
DEFINITIONS
Process ID.
Each active process in the system is uniquely identified by a
non-negative integer called a process ID. The range of this ID
is from 0 to 30000.
Which is wrong, since PID_MAX is now 99999.
>How-To-Repeat:
RTFM for intro(2) :-)
>Fix:
--- intro.2~ Wed Mar 10 18:02:03 1999
+++ intro.2 Wed Mar 10 18:05:20 1999
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Process ID .
Each active process in the system is uniquely identified by a non-negative
-integer called a process ID. The range of this ID is from 0 to 30000.
+integer called a process ID. The range of this ID is from 0 to 99998.
.It Parent process ID
A new process is created by a currently active process; (see
.Xr fork 2 ) .
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