Re: process id or thread id

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Thank you for all the not very helpful suggestions not to do this.
There are various reasons why it would be a good idea for me
to do this and then to change it later. If anyone would like to take
me out for a beer, I'd be happy to explain it to them and I'm sure
that they'd agree.

Does anyone know whether windows actually uses the high
16-bits of the PID or TID fields. My thinking is that 3K to 4K users
is quite a large # for aWindows box and I suspect that 10K threads
would also be considered a lot. OTOH, I do have PID's up over
30000 even though I only have 80 processes on my system.

Alternativly, if there is no overlap between TID and PID values, that
would be useful to know as well.


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