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SubjectRe: Reserved PID's
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Balaji Srinivasan wrote:

> --------B. James Phillippe wrote----------
> >
> > I have run into the snag of having system processes (such as those
> > spawned by inetd) fill up all the available PID's. In some cases, I was
>
> Reserving PIDs is of no use...PIDs themselves dont run out...its space
> in the tasks array (which holds pointers to all the tasks)
> balaji

File Descriptors then, used for process ID numbers. Is that more
accurate?

-bp
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