* Andy Lutomirski: > On Nov 30, 2014 1:47 AM, "Florian Weimer" <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> * Andy Lutomirski: >> >> > The initial implementation is straightforward: highpid is simply a >> > 64-bit counter. If a high-end system can fork every 3 ns (which >> > would be amazing, given that just allocating a pid requires at >> > atomic operation), it would take well over 1000 years for highpid to >> > wrap. >> >> I'm not sure if I'm reading the patch correctly, but is the counter >> namespaced? If yes, why? > > It's namespaced so that CRIU can migrate/restore a whole pid namespace. Oh well, this requirement is at odds with system-wide uniqueness. Is CRIU really that important? :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
