Re: PID Wrap <strangeness>

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 10:02:09 EST

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Mathijs Mohlmann <mathijs@knoware.nl> writes:

|> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
|> > A hard-coded number of 300 is an eye-opener.
|>
|> I'm starting to think, that 300 isn't even low enough. My redhat sysinit
|> scripts use so many pids, that my first daemon has pid 340. 600 would be
|> a saner value on my system.

And when you restart a daemon then it can get _any_ random pid. This
ain't gonna work in general.

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