On Thu Dec 18 2014 at 5:06:44 AM David CARLIER <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I wished to propose a small diff in order to expose PID_MAX to the user > land via sysctl (readable/writable). It is actually fixed to the value > (SHRT_MAX-1) but with it we can set as will (with some boundaries...). > Might be also useful for app which rely on pid ... > > Feel free to give your impressions. > > Why do you need to programatically know the PID space? Since PIDs are randomised i'm not sure what this would buy you. I am very dubious why you would want to *set* the pid space. Can you explain why you want this? Cheers, -0- > Thanks in advance. >
