Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:21:15 +0200 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: Larger dev_t |
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > In article <UTC200103251231.OAA10795.aeb@vlet.cwi.nl>, > <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote: > >a large name space allows one to omit checking what part can be > >reused - reuse is unnecessary. > > You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will > be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for example. > > Wichert.
Yes indeed. If my box, after continually spawning 1000000000 processes per second for 500 years crashes because pid_t overflows, I'll think about whether I should put the test back in, or should upgrade to a 128-bit machine.
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