kern/11165: IBCS2 don't work correctly with PID_MAX 99999

[Julian Elischer]

The following reply was made to PR kern/11165; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Elischer <julian at vicor.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, aef at shu.smolensk.su
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/11165: IBCS2 don't work correctly with PID_MAX 99999
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:33:46 -0700

 No it's an inherrent problem..
 pids inthese systems are a 16 bit word
 they can not HOLD a PID > 16 bits..
 
 I suggest adding a sysctl that keeps the new generated pids < 60000
 as they were for years.. this is true also fo freebsd 1.x binaries
 which had the same problem when run under new FreeBSDs.