[systemd-devel] Antw: systemd prerelease 243-rc2

[Reindl Harald]

Am 22.08.19 um 15:38 schrieb Ulrich Windl:
>>>> systemd tag bot <donotreply-systemd-tag at refi64.com> schrieb am 22.08.2019
> um
> 13:56 in Nachricht <20190822115637.1.05C510C92B339AF7 at refi64.com>:
>> A new systemd ☠️ pre-release ☠️ has just been tagged. Please download the 
>> tarball here:
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> 
>>         * 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 at 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