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Re: [PATCH v2] Improve portability: Cast pid_t's to intmax_t

From
Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Date
Sep 1, 2008, 08:54 UTC
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<buood382qlq.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
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"George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> writes:
> You can be paranoid if you like and cast to long, but I don't think
> even a massive 64-bit cluster is likely to have more than 2G processes
> in the forseeable future.
But it isn't it possible for some OS to use a sparse PID namespace?
-Miles
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  1. George SpelvinSep 1, 2008
  2. Miles BaderSep 1, 2008

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