Hi Randall, > I believe that modern Linux and FreeBSD implementations use 32 bit > ints for the pid_t.
Right. > There will never be that many processes on a 32 bit > OS, but since they just go forward until they wrap, getting a pid bigger > than 16 bits is probably even to be expected. However, they don't plainly wrap. There is a system limit in the kernel, controlled via "/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max". Even on 64-bit machines (where pid_t is also an 'int', i.e. a 64-bit number), PIDs don't get up to such huge numbers. ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
