From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7246 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2012 06:41:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 7176 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2012 06:41:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:41:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA372BB09A; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 01:41:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LKNfQxHNRhLS; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 01:41:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ABEB2BB093; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 01:41:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00964145615; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:41:22 +0400 (RET) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:41:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Ulrich Weigand Cc: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, sergiodj@redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfc] Options for "info mappings" etc. (Re: [PATCH] Implement new `info core mappings' command) Message-ID: <20120106064122.GJ2730@adacore.com> References: <4F05E9C8.9060706@gmail.com> <201201051953.q05JrUDS025048@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201201051953.q05JrUDS025048@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00226.txt.bz2 > > AFAIK, there's no such thing as a 42000 PID; PIDs on Linux are limited > > to 16-bit. > > See my reply to Mark; this is no longer true in general these days. It wasn't true even before. Other old systems such as mips-irix also had 64bit PIDs, for instance, or Tru64. -- Joel