From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: QNX subprocess bug Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:26:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143507329 21896 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2006 00:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bbramwel@shaw.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 28 02:55:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FO2UW-0007Fe-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:55:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FO2UW-0006tH-CO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:55:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FO0BT-00039l-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FO0BQ-000367-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FO0BP-00035r-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:27:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FO0Cy-000276-PD; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:29:09 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 04063A50034; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:27:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:35:46 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52131 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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 http://www.cua.dk