On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:20 +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know that PID's wrap around if they get to a sufficiently
> large number
> - anyone know what that number is?
>
> 2^16 (65536), or 2^15 (32768)?
>
> $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
> 32768
>
> Is it fixed for a particular system / kernel / universe? or
> even better,
> is there a #define I can use from one of the system headers?
>
> it is defined in kernel/pid.c
> int pid_max = PID_MAX_DEFAULT;
and PID_MAX_DEFAULT, if you want to #include something, ends up in
<linux/threads.h>
thanks!
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