RE: random PIDs

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>  Finished & tested my random PID kernel/fork.c:get_pid() replacement. 
> > This one keeps track of the last N (default is 64) pids who have exited. 
> > These are then not used. So, one cannot have more then 32767 - (64 + 1 
> > (init) + 1 (idle)) = 32761 processes :o) 
> DW> Huh, should be 32701, right?! 
> 
> You're absolutely right. It must've been the victory trance :o) 
>
Have you actually tried to create lots of threads?

IIRC get_pid will loop forever if it doesn't find a free pid, and in the
worst case you can trigger that with ~11000 running threads.

And the current code can create multiple threads with the same pid (I
never tried to trigger that bug, but it seems to be possible)

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	Manfred