High-process-count support added to master

Re:High-process-count support added to master by lallysingh on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:25PM (#15020918)

6 digit PIDs? These aren't actually stored in decimal, right?

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Re:High-process-count support added to master by jrbancel on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:40PM (#15021060)

No, but they are constrained to be less than or equal to 999,999.

See http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/586c43085f...

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Re:High-process-count support added to master by fanf2 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:17PM (#15022692)

When FreeBSD moved from 16 bit PIDs to 5 digit PIDs back in about 1999, I got the impression that one reason for not using the full 32 bit space was compatibility with tabular formatting in lots of userspace tools.

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Re:High-process-count support added to master by jlgaddis on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:15PM (#15021393)

signed int, IIRC (cf. pid_t)

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