Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is given

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:11:33 +0200

Duy Nguyen <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Andres Perera <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> +       uintmax_t pid;
>>
>> pid_t is always an signed type, therefore unintmax_t does not make
>> sense as a catch all value
>
> I only catch real process id. In practice we don't have processes with
> negative pid_t, do we? I can't find any document about this, but at
> least waitpid seems to treat negative pid (except -1) just as an
> indicator while the true pid is the positive counterpart.

Negative pids are used for denoting process groups in various
interfaces.  No process can have a negative pid.

Andreas.

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