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SubjectRe: pid_max madness
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote:

> Let's do:
> #echo "-1" >/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
> #cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
> -1
> #
>
> Madness, isn't ?
>
> I guess that isn't what author ment it to behave like.
> Anyway, does it mean that after max unsigned value is reached pids are going
> to be negative in value ??
>
> --
> GJ
> -

Seems to set them back to 300 on this system Linux-2.6.9. That's
an interesting side-effect. I like it! They never get much over
300 either!


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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