maximum number of cygwin processes per user?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:03:34PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:25:33 -0400 Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Hmmm don't quite follow you there Chris, could you elaborate on what you
>mean by "per program"?

Does "per-process" make it any clearer?  Each process can start 256
subprocesses.

cgf

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