Re: AIX and Interix also do early PID recycling.

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/25/12 11:33 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> I cannot see how CHILD_MAX is related to pid reuse.  CHILD_MAX is a
> per-user limit, but the pid namespace is global.  If the shell forks a
> new process, and the pid of it matches one of the previously used pids
> for asynchronous jobs it can surely discard the remembered status for
> that job.

Thanks, that's a good restatement of the problem.  Your proposed solution
is one of the possibles.  The question is whether or not it's necessary
(apparently on some systems) and sufficient (probably).

Chet


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