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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?
Message-ID: <11371@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 14 Jul 90 06:49:16 GMT
References: <1655@yenta.alb.nm.us>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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in article <1655@yenta.alb.nm.us>, dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) says:
> Am I missing something?  I thought the kernel table had only so many
> slots for processes on the whole system, each of which is available
> to anyone.  

I'm not sure how other unixes do it, but under HP-UX, a Bsd derivative with
SVID certification, there are two separate parameters in the gen file (some-
thing like /etc/conf/S800 - I'm not at work) - one is maxuproc for max. no.
procs per user, and the other controls total system procs.
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