Re: PIDs limited to 15 significant bits

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 16:17:11 EST


On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:53:05PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:

    [The patch is available. There are a few security advantages.
    Also, it makes a fork a just measurable fraction of a percent
    faster.]

How does it make it faster? The only thing I can see is it might
remove the heuristic we have for when PIDs wrap -- which technically
we still need.

  --cw
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