Hi,

I poked Kaï on IRC about that; here's the log (very slightly reformatted):

> Well, I admit that I know that pid_t is on standard sdk just a 32-bit value.
> Nevertheless there is a lot of software in FOSS, which assumes that pid_t has
> actually the width of a pointer, and so we decided to make pidt_t on Windows
> 64-bit.
> Nevertheless assuming that pid_t is an int, is also wrong on Windows.
> It is actually a DWORD.  See GetThreadId (or something like that is the API of
> Win32).
> So negative values are nothing to be concerned about at all.
> API is GetCurrentThreadId()
> I am openminded here, but we might need to expect fallout by this change.
> Not sure if this is worth the change.

--
Adrien Nader

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