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From: loren@mcl.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: HOW DO I FIGURE OUT HOW MANY PROCESSES ARE RUNNING?
Date: 27 May 1996 18:55:01 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
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I am trying to write a program that forks a bunch of times, but it needs 
to know how many processes are already running so it doesn't use em all 
up.  Any suggestions?

Loren