Re: Instance , what instance.

From: Andrew Mobbs <andrewm_at_chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: 14 Aug 2001 16:49:57 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <vZc*PiL3o@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>

Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>that pmon will get killed last - although the odds are
>probably about 6,000 to 1 in favour (based on
>max(pid)=65535, and background pids leaving a
>gap of 2 all the time, and 5 pids being assigned
>as a typical number etc. etc. etc.)

Not much to do with your point, but just on a general robustness principal, please don't assume that PIDs are 16 bit.

rattle:~$ uname -a
OSF1 rattle V5.0 1094 alpha
rattle:~$ ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD [...]

oracle8i 150295      1  0.0 09:20:41 ??           0:05.86 oracleRATTLE01 (LOCAL
oracle8i 150298      1  0.0 09:20:37 ??           0:00.08 oracleRATTLE01 (LOCAL

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