On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:16:23PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Why is the pid value limited to 15 bits on _all_ architectures?
> I read somewhere that libc5-i386 is restricted to signed short, but what
> about the other architectures?
Most of the newer ports don't have this restriction; they use a pid_t
of 32 bits for kernel and libc, that is the range for used pids could be
extended to 0 - 2^31-1. So let's turn the constant 0xffff8000 used in
get_pid() into an architecture specific constant PID_MASK or so.
(Actually I'd like a 64-bit pid_t - makes get_pid() trivial ;-)
Ralf
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