> On the topic of pids, I note that the BSDs have pids up to 99999
> rather than 65535 -- they've kept to five digits to avoid changing
> the field width in the output of ps etc. I don't know of any unices
> that have widened them.
IRIX uses a long int to store pids, so you have ps listings like this:
jerry 2609684 2579944 0 06:56:46 pts/35 0:00 sort
Setting the tcpiss_md5 kernel tuning variable to "1" gives a non
sequential number.
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