Process ID munging

[David Taylor]

    Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:51:00 +1000
    From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
[...]
    The short term bandaid most likely involves changing that PID to a
    LONGEST (or a typedef LONGEST ...).  Longer term, it is going to need a
    more radical treatment.

    Instead of the current integer, a thread object that has bound to it
    things like its architecture, its symbol information, its address map,
    its target interface and even its cached register/memory information. 
    Implementing it involves some careful thought and a serious amount of
    strategizing (.... :-).

How about something like...

    struct process
    {
	pid_t p_pid; /* make it an int if pid_t causes too many problems */
	int p_tid;
	... other fields to be determined later ...
    }

    struct process *current_process;

    #define inferior_pid current_process->p_pid

Wouldn't that get us more than 90% there?

Yes, I realize that there are still issues.  But, it seems that if you
did something like this that most files would require no editing...

Initially current_process could be allocated once at startup; later it
could be allocated / freed when the 'process' is 'created' / 'killed'.