Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues

[Ingo Molnar]

* Albert Cahalan <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'd much prefer LRU allocation. There are
> lots of system calls that take PID values.
> All such calls are hazardous. They're pretty
> much broken by design.

this is a pretty sweeping assertion. Would you
care to mention a few examples of such hazards?

> BTW, since pid_max is now adjustable, reducing
> the default to 4 digits would make sense. [...]

i'm not sure what you mean by 'now', pid_max has
been adjustable for quite some time.

	Ingo
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