Re: Max PID

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 11:53 15 Nov 2002, A. Johnson Jeba Asir <johnson ooty tenet res in> wrote:
| 	Can somebody tell me what is the maximum value PID can take?

Well it's defined as an int on the system in front of me, but historically
it's been a signed 16 bit value, so a valid pid ranged from 0 to 32767.

Generally you should just use pid_t to store it, or are you sizing some
flat array somewhere?
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