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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 23.08.19 um 05:55 schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 16:38 Ulrich Windl
> <Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
>     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...
> 
> 
> 
> I've been using this value for at least 5 years, and did expect many
> issues at first, but so far haven't encountered any at all.
> 
> (I do kind of suspect that if there are any programs affected by this
> and without source code available, they would be so old that they
> wouldn't really run on a bleeding-edge distro anyway...)

and everybody can override "kernel.pid_max" at any point in time on his
system like i do by set it to 4000000 so i don't get the fuss at all

that's nothing complex and not part of PID1

it's time that people undestand that not everything is done in PID1^
itself, the opposite is true