Re: Maximum Number for a Process ID?

From: Chuck Dillon (spam_at_nimblegen.com)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:36:18 -0500

clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:
> On SGI, and Red Hat Linux what is the maximum possible number for a
> PID?
>
> On SGI, "ps -A" shows me 9 digits, and on Linux it shows 5!
>
> Thank you,
> Christopher Lusardi
>

man limits or see /usr/include/limits.h and look for PID_MAX.

-- ced 

-- 
Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.

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