Re: Instance , what instance.

It's all useful information -

Any users of 64-bit OS's available to
comment on PID sizes on HP-UX, Solaris etc.

Some UNIXes also cycle at 32K, of course.

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Andrew Mobbs wrote in message ...


>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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