Is there any reason we can't use larger process IDs?

I've noticed some OSs seem to have really large ones, perhaps using
the high bits to indicate the CPU it began on or something strange.

--Michael

der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:

> >>>> ((lwpid << 16) | pid).
> > Back in '93 a 64k process table was considered huge,
> 
> It still is, for us.  Impossibly huge.
> 
> #define PID_MAX         30000
> 
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