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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: bbramwel@shaw.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: QNX subprocess bug
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:26:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3odzr4j9j.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FNnCU-0000oW-5k@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:35:46 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Using cons cells to represent pids seems likely to cause trouble in
> any code that uses pids.

I don't know if it is true, but someone recently told me that even the
Linux kernel will use 32-bit pids if you happen to create more than
32000 processes at the same time.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-27 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <gD4Vf.180176$B94.1009@pd7tw3no>
2006-03-26  0:22 ` QNX subprocess bug Richard Stallman
2006-03-26  4:26   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-27  8:35     ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-27 22:26       ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2006-03-31  3:11         ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-26  4:33   ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-03 18:00 bob
2006-04-04 22:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-05  3:47   ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-05  9:01   ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-05 13:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-05 19:06     ` Richard Stallman

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