maximum number of cygwin processes per user?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:13:21PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
>Having a strange issue where process creation seems to fail for no good
>reason.  I think I've hit a process creation limit.
>
>Googling around I found:
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-01/msg00249.html
>
>Is it still the case that cygwin is limited to a max number of
>processes and is this on a user by user basis as starting the same
>thing under a different user seems to work.

The process limit is 256 per program.  You should see an EAGAIN errno
being set if the process limit is hit.  The overall per-user process
limit is controlled by Windows.

cgf

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