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@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ effects of the disadvantages of each design.
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Since it was decided that heap allocations for ProcFS are *mostly* bad, the new
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design layout tries to achieve most of the principle of "Don't allocate anything
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-until actually needed". For that to happen, `InodeIndex` (u64 value) is splitted
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-to 3 Segments:
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+until actually needed". For that to happen, `InodeIndex` (u64 value) is split
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+into 3 Segments:
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- The primary segment: value 0 is reserved for all non-PID inodes in the procfs.
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All values from 1 to 0xFFFFFFF are valid PID indices, which represents all PIDs from 0 to 0xFFFFFFE
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Nico Weber