Am 22.08.19 um 15:38 schrieb Ulrich Windl: >>>> systemd tag bot <[email protected]> schrieb am 22.08.2019 > um > 13:56 in Nachricht <[email protected]>: >> A new systemd ☠️ pre-release ☠️ has just been tagged. Please download the >> tarball here: > > >> * On 64 bit systems, the "kernel.pid_max" sysctl is now bumped to >> 4194304 by default, i.e. the full 22bit range the kernel allows, >> up >> from the old 16bit range. This should improve security and >> robustness, as PID collisions are made less likely (though > > I doubt it's increasing robustness for any existing application as > pid_traditionally was 16 bit. I don't know if some applications try to > sprintf() a pid into a char[6], but if they do, it might cause an application > failure... FWIW:
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ sysctl kernel.pid_max kernel.pid_max = 4000000 50 machines from all types you can think and more than a year with no known issues _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
