pid rollover?

[tif at cpe.UUCP]

Written  6:31 am  Feb  8, 1989 by root44.UUCP!aegl in cpe:comp.unix.xenix
>the pid to be the index into the proc table.  (and WOW, you could save
>2 bytes from the proc structure by not having a p_pid element at all!).
>What would break if you did this (do the big mainframes already do

At the very least, HDB-style pid-locking would be less useful since
a given PID is quite likely to have SOME process running.

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
			{killer | texbell}!cpe!tif