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.
Andries
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