On Fri, Feb 06, 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:37:30AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > [...] > > apparrently programs in 1.1 can not handle that the PID can go past > > 32767 now.. 'wait()' for example fails.. > > > > ok , so recompile my kenrel with PID_MAX set to 30000 > > and try again.. > > all works fine.. > > > > I'm tempted to make PID_MAX a tunable or a sysctl.. Making PID_MAX tunable sounds like a fine idea. You get bonus points for looking forwards rather than backwards and retrofitting the userland tools for 6-digit pids. ;-) > I think FreeBSD 1.1 compatibility is obscure enough that there's no > need for it to work in out of the box (i.e. GENERIC) at the cost of > increased complexity in non-obscure configurations. Ideally, COMPAT_43 > would be broken up into COMPAT_43, COMPAT_FREEBSD[123], etc., removed > from GENERIC and perhaps then we could define PID_MAX conditionally > on these options or at least #error out. I think COMPAT_43 exists mostly to cover up a bunch of stuff that ought to have been nixed or fixed a long time ago, not for actual 4.3BSD compatibility. For instance, COMPAT_43 is still required to get the old socket interface that linux.ko requires.Received on Fri Feb 06 2004 - 06:30:08 UTC
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