[PLUG] PIDs

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On 17 Sep 2002, Ed Sawicki wrote:

> If I recall correctly, Linux PIDs were changed to 32-bit values
> at some point. Is this correct and does anyone remember when the
> change from 16-bit values occurred?
> 
> or am I confusing PIDs with UIDs?

UIDs but I don't know if/when they changed.  Perhaps GIDs (group) also
since Redhat, at least, uses user-private groups so would need as many
GIDs as UIDs for a real multiuser system.

Rod
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