How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?

[BURNS,JIM]

in article <1655 at yenta.alb.nm.us>, dt at 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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