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Re: A process can't have more than 63 child processes.

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:42:33AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:57:37AM +0100, Espen Harlinn wrote:
>>Another possible solution would be to create additional threads,
>>and delegate the WaitForMultipleObjects, using 3 threads, one to
>>manage the other two, would allow 124 children to be executed.
>
>I believe that I already mentioned this scenario yesterday.
>
>I'm not interested in doing this, but I would certainly wouldn't reject
>a patch.

FWIW, I've moved the number of supported children down to 63 and added
an error return to fork for the failing condition.

cgf
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