svn commit: r244154 - head/bin/ps

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 03:13:00AM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:42:47PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > In that case I'd prefer to make existing kern.pid_max sysctl read-only
> > and make it loader tunable. I don't expect there are many users of this
> > sysctl...
> > 
> No, I described you the purpose of the sysctl. Requiring reboot just for
> running the old binaries is not useful. Please do not break it.

Kostik. How many users of this sysctl are there? 2? 3? Is it really
worth introducing yet another sysctl to export PID_MAX from the kernel?
I think if someone decides to run 1.x binary there will be some
inconvenience apart from the need to reboot.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
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