On Nov 30, 2014 1:47 AM, "Florian Weimer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Andy Lutomirski: > > > The initial implementation is straightforward: highpid is simply a > > 64-bit counter. If a high-end system can fork every 3 ns (which > > would be amazing, given that just allocating a pid requires at > > atomic operation), it would take well over 1000 years for highpid to > > wrap. > > I'm not sure if I'm reading the patch correctly, but is the counter > namespaced? If yes, why?
It's namespaced so that CRIU can migrate/restore a whole pid namespace. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
