/proc wouldn't run out of inode numbers, but allocation would be more
painful (the limiting factor is the size of the process table anyway.)
As far as the APIs go this should be no different than the "high bits"
solution that was suggested -- the "high bits" stuff really just
amounts to a different policy of allocating tid's.
-hpa
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