On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:45:04PM +0000, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > Author: pjd > Date: Wed Dec 12 15:45:03 2012 > New Revision: 244154 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244154 > > Log: > Use kern.max_pid sysctl to obtain maximum PID number instead of using local > define. It is pid_max, not max_pid.
But the change is wrong. The kern.pid_max only limits newly allocated pids, it does not magically moves existing pids, which are out of range, to the limited region. See the corresponding commit log for the description. It was added to make it easier to run FreeBSD 1.x binaries on the modern kernels.
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