G'day... I'm developing a database application that uses the inserting processes pid. Problem is that I'm wondering how big this pid should be? (OK, if I was a true guru, I'd know this magic number off the top of my head...) Is the maximum value of a pid on a UN*X system 65,535? (At least generally speaking - I think on FreeBSD for example its at 30,000 by default.) I've been looking at a lot of web pages, but mostly they seem to deal with the maximum number of concurrent processes. (Which is rather defined by memory and sits at about 33,000 for modified Linux with an average process -excluding the OS-being 30K, but only 4,090 unmodified.) Regards,
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