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Add more info about max pid in docstring
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@ -121,18 +121,29 @@ class GlancesProcesses(object):
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@property
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def pid_max(self):
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"""Get the maximum number of PID
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On a Linux operating system, the value is read from
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the /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max file.
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"""
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Get the maximum PID value.
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If the file is unreadable or not available (on others OS),
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return None.
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On Linux, the value is read from the `/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max` file.
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From `man 5 proc`:
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The default value for this file, 32768, results in the same range of
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PIDs as on earlier kernels. On 32-bit platfroms, 32768 is the maximum
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value for pid_max. On 64-bit systems, pid_max can be set to any value
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up to 2^22 (PID_MAX_LIMIT, approximately 4 million).
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If the file is unreadable or not available for whatever reason,
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returns None.
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Some other OSes:
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- On FreeBSD and macOS the maximum is 99999.
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- On OpenBSD >= 6.0 the maximum is 99999 (was 32766).
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- On NetBSD the maximum is 30000.
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:returns: int or None
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"""
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if LINUX:
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# For the moment, only available on LINUX
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# Waiting from https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/720
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# XXX: waiting for https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/720
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try:
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with open('/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max', 'rb') as f:
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return int(f.read())
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