matthew green wrote:
> i think we could safely raise PID_MAX to 99999.  but beyond
> this and suddenly you've got pids > 5 numbers for the first
> time and i don't know what will break.  i've heard of a few
> horror stories from IRIX (they have huge pids).

There is another issue that some of compat/* have 16bit
PIDs. So we could safely raise PID_MAX to little bit less
than SHRT_MAX-1, i.e. 32766. After that, care has to be
taken.

Jaromir 
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