get_pid() question

Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:16:23 +0200

Why is the pid value limited to 15 bits on _all_ architectures?
I read somewhere that libc5-i386 is restricted to signed short, but what
about the other architectures?

And get_pid() doesn't contain an "out of pid" detection. AFAICS one
thread can block 3 pid values (pid, pgrp, session), we must limit the
number of threads to 10.000 on i386.

--
	Manfred


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