Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Improve portability: Cast pid_t's to intmax_t

From: Miles Bader <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:54:41 +0900

"George Spelvin" <[email-masked]> writes:
> You can be paranoid if you like and cast to long, but I don't think
> even a massive 64-bit cluster is likely to have more than 2G processes
> in the forseeable future.

But it isn't it possible for some OS to use a sparse PID namespace?

-Miles

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