From: Miles Bader Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:54:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Improve portability: Cast pid_t's to intmax_t Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080901082801.29621.qmail@science.horizon.com> "George Spelvin" 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 -- Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think we think.