Re: [gentoo-user] where does PID wrap around?

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:20 +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         I know that PID's wrap around if they get to a sufficiently
>         large number
>         - anyone know what that number is?
>         
>         2^16 (65536), or 2^15 (32768)?
>  
> $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
> 32768
> 
>         Is it fixed for a particular system / kernel / universe? or
>         even better,
>         is there a #define I can use from one of the system headers? 
>         
> it is defined in kernel/pid.c
> int pid_max = PID_MAX_DEFAULT;

and PID_MAX_DEFAULT, if you want to #include something, ends up in
<linux/threads.h>

thanks!
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