Re: Killing clones

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 03:56:27 -0400


From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: 14 Aug 1997 18:54:24 +0200

> Because of such and other reasons it might be a good idea to move to
> a 32-bit pid in the future, so that pid's will be unique for a process.

glibc already uses 32 bit PIDs. It's again up to the kernel to make
the move.

In general this brings up the question of whether we want to enforce a
requirement that people upgrade to glibc when we move forward to the 2.2
kernel.....

- Ted