Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues

From: Pavel Machek (pavel_at_suse.cz)
Date: 09/23/04

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    Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:11:33 +0200
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>, linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, cw@f00f.org, mingo@elte.hu, anton@samba.org

    Hi!

    > > 1. weak security enhancement
    > > 2. cosmetic (backwards, IMHO)
    > > 3. speed (avoid PIDs likely to be used)
    >
    > Well, weak security enhancement translates to "nop" in my book, but
    > I guess if that's really what people were trying to arrange...
    >

    Well, how many times did you do kill <pid> from command line after doing ps?
    If you randomly kill some other process because pids wrapped too fast, it is bad. 

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