On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Any particular reason why we have
>
> #define MAX_ZONEID      9999
>
> in zone.h ?
>
> I am searching for the definition for zoneid_t but I am guessing that it
> is bigger than an unsigned 16 bit integer.
>
> Given sufficient resources I would guess that a machine could have greater
> than 9999 zones defined and configured regardless if they are running or
> not.
>

zone id's are like PID's - each zone may have a different zone id each
time it is booted.  It seems as though this value is used to
initialize a id_space, which is described at:

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/os/id_space.c#33

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Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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