On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:33:57PM +1000, Michael Kraus wrote:
I'm developing a database application that uses the inserting processes
pid. Problem is that I'm wondering how big this pid should be?
It depends on your platform:
traditional 30000
Linux 32768
FreeBSD 99999
Solaris tunable up to 999999
Plan9 just uses 32 bits - I can't be bothered booting
to check if it's signed or not
(You might care to +/- 1 on the values above, as some may be
inclusive, and some exclusive.)
Given that this is mostly a Linux list, you know which number to use,
and why things will break if you move your stuff elsewhere. :-)
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