From: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.4
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5C5A2ADD.5010608@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <announce.20190201193437.GB3912@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 2/1/2019 11:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> - Cygwin PIDs have been decoupled from Windows PID. Cygwin PIDs are
> now incrementally dealt in the range from 2 up to 65535, POSIX-like.
>
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Posix like? Posix starts from '1' (usually for init), but
never heard it limited to 65535 ---
Linux allows 32bits (I set it to 99,999) to keep it to 5 digits
and uses /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max to adjust it.
Some systems wrapped too soon and it as confusing so they allowed
for more pids.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-06 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-01 19:37 [ANNOUNCEMENT] " Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-06 0:31 ` L A Walsh [this message]
2019-02-06 9:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-06 0:50 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] " Andrey Repin
2019-02-06 9:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-06 9:54 ` Michael Haubenwallner
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