On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 11:34 PM Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote:
> On 9/3/20 10:02 AM, enh wrote: > > Isn't it 6 digits now? 999999 processes? (Didn't we have this > discussion already > > about ps? In theory top inherits that code...) > > > > > > Yes, but my desktop has 7 digits (now at least --- I don't know whether > my > > desktop and laptop always differed like this, or this is from the ubuntu > -> > > debian switch). > > Are you willing to admit threads were a mistake yet? :) > to be clear, i only have 412 different pids on this machine. but the current largest is 4116808. (the "mistake" is that pids are meant to be a unique identifier but come from a small pool --- not having something like pidfd since the 1970s.) > > We could bump the hard-coded value again, but that seems like a lot of > wasted > > empty columns for small systems? > > I have confidence that a truly threaded system can hit 8 anyway. > well, someone will configure a system to use the full range of an int at some point, yes. > Alright, am I writing to the typos array already? That really looks like it > should be in read-only memory but currently isn't, I forget why. (Vague > "tried > it and it didn't work" vibes but what specifically happened? I almost > certainly > have a todo item for it somewhere...) > > Pushed. Try now? > yeah, lgtm on both a phone and a "real computer". thanks! > Rob >
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