Re: [Exim] Small change to exiwhat

Iain Price <iain.price@???> write:
>
> True, but i think *all* unix implements process numbers as an increasing
> wrapping number, 16 bit (signed?). Anyway, if signed, you would have to
> have some ten thousand processes start and die per second for this to be
> an issue :D

This has been pretty well savaged by now, but just to add the coup de grace
I would like to point out that process numbers are not necessarily 16-bit.
On Solaris, for example, pid_t is a 32-bit integer, and process numbers
can in fact range up to MAX_MAXPID = 999999 if you want them to (by an
/etc/system setting).

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk