[X-Unix] what the fork?

[William H. Magill]

On 10 Aug, 2004, at 09:24, Victor Eijkhout wrote:

>> 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

Ignore my NPIDS parameter comment. I forgot that Darwin uses sysctl, 
not sysconfigtab. ... that's the problem with supporting multiple Unix 
operating systems, they tend to blend together.


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