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

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1655 at yenta.alb.nm.us> dt at yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
>jrw at 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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