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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.034157.17448@virtech.uucp>
Date: 14 Jul 90 03:41:57 GMT
References: <841@massey.ac.nz> <671@mtune.ATT.COM> <1655@yenta.alb.nm.us>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1655@yenta.alb.nm.us> dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
>jrw@mtune.ATT.COM (Jim Webb) writes:
>
>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.  Therefore, the nasty code would hog every last slot,

Unix systems have a per-user limit on the number of processes
in addition to the system wide limit.  Most systems will also
keep a normal user process form using up the last free slot in
the process table (that is left for root).

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