On Friday 06 February 2004 04:22 am, 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.. > > 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. He didn't say that he wanted to stick PIX_MAD in GENERIC, just that he wanted it tunable. > > I think that some compatibility modes may have teh same problems > > (though I doubt that many people use anything other than Linux > > compatibility) > > As far as I know, only iBCS2 needs 16-bit bits. iBCS2 support would > be more productive dead, as would our obviously unused and untested > SVR4 support. Actually, people do use the SVR4 support (we hear about it on re_at_ from time to time). -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Feb 06 2004 - 10:25:32 UTC
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