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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: where is maxproc set initially?
Date: 23 Feb 1997 22:32:12 GMT
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Vlad <roubtsov@uiuc.edu> wrote:

> so there is no simple relation between the two numbers. The above limit
> isn't set in any system-wide configuration file, nor in the kernel
> configuration or set in any rc.* scripts. Where is it built in?

It used to be set via CHILD_MAX in <sys/syslimits.h>.  These days, it
has been replaced to by an implementation of login classes (by David
Nugent).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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