RE: PID_MAX (was console hangs, but machine still up)

[Kjell Wooding <kwooding@codetalker.com>]

>I'll happily rebuild my kernel and see if that solves the problem,
>but even so shouldn't the PID_MAX value be obeyed regardless of
>which kernel I have?  That is, even if it was defined as 99,999
>when I built it, I should not be getting preposterous PIDs at
>98573.  Right?  Or is there other application code that uses PID_MAX.
>I.e. do I have to rebuild all the applications, socks, squid,
>newsyslog, etc?

No. It's the kernel that allocates the pid number, and does the check against PID_MAX. (ie - check in fork, execve, and so on).

-kj