From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 00:44:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA27305 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:44:02 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA27299 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:43:50 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA16903; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:43:15 +0800 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:43:14 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Mike Pritchard cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 16-bit pids? (was Re: 16, 32, and 64bit types?) In-Reply-To: <199508291802.NAA02791@mpp.minn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Mike Pritchard wrote: > > In the past I've been involved in some projects where pid collisions > due to pid wrap was a problem. Oh hmmmm, wow... doesn't FreeBSD have a global process limit of some sort? I know I've seen "No more processes" on BSD/OS and SunOS systems, even though the user maxproc limit had not been reached. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org