* Andy Lutomirski: > The initial implementation is straightforward: highpid is simply a > 64-bit counter. If a high-end system can fork every 3 ns (which > would be amazing, given that just allocating a pid requires at > atomic operation), it would take well over 1000 years for highpid to > wrap.
I'm not sure if I'm reading the patch correctly, but is the counter namespaced? If yes, why? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
