[X-Unix] what the fork?

[Victor Eijkhout]

>It looks like in Darwin, the parameter involved might be NPIDS 
>(maximum number of PIDs per process) which is set to 16. But I'm not 
>particularly conversant with the kernel.

Is that a compile--time constant? Another respondent pointed me to 
the "sysctl" command, and nothing related to "pid" seems to appear 
there. In fact, that command seems to indicate a considerably more 
generous limit:
kern.maxprocperuid = 100

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