On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >a large name space allows one to omit checking what part can be
> > >reused - reuse is unnecessary.
> > 
> > You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will
> > be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for example.
> > 
> > Wichert.
> 
> Yes indeed. If my box, after continually spawning 1000000000 processes
> per second for 500 years crashes because pid_t overflows, I'll think
> about whether I should put the test back in, or should upgrade to a
> 128-bit machine.

this is a no point thread, we are not going to live 500 years? a 64 bits
space is more that we are going to need anyway...

Juan Diego

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