>> Which ones are they?
>> How insane would it be to restrict it to SHRT_MAX-1 if those COMPAT
>> options are enabled, otherwise 99999 ?
>
>Another option might be, by default at least, to do something like we
>do for ptys: allocate pids for native processes from the > 16-bit part
>of the space first, saving pids for iBCS2 binaries in the low part of
>the space.  If we believe that iBCS2 binaries are unlikely to need to
>refer to native processes by pid (possible, though handling getppid()
>might be a bit iffy) this might work.

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