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SubjectRe: Linux 2.3.39 has 32bit uid. What about 32bit pid?
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Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> said:

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> Definitely reserve enough space for 32 bit pid. Even if it will not
> happen in 2.3, it will happen _someday_.

> PS: I'd like it soon. It would enable to create pids that never wrap
> around, and close one major problem with UNIX.

How is it a major problem? Wraparound _will_ happen anyway (machines do
grow larger, I assume wraparound of pids used to be quite a turning point
some time back, now it happens all the time. 1Mb RAM used to be outrageous
not that far in the past, today people complain because they can't use 4Gb)
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