From: Albert Cahalan This is needed so that apps can set appropriate column widths for PID display. kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~make-pid_max-readable kernel/sysctl.c --- 25/kernel/sysctl.c~make-pid_max-readable 2003-06-12 23:38:48.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/sysctl.c 2003-06-12 23:38:48.000000000 -0700 @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = { .procname = "pid_max", .data = &pid_max, .maxlen = sizeof (int), - .mode = 0600, + .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, { _