Hi all, I have some test code that forks number of processes, and it looks like under Cygwin it fails at fork number 255 (plus minus one).
There is no getrlimit()'s RLIMIT_NPROC on Cygwin (unlike Unices) yet I see that my shell somehow shows the process limit of 256: $ ulimit -u 256 I tried to look it up, but nothing useful comes up, so decided to ask the list -- it can be a lot quicker... 1. Is there a limit, indeed? 2. If there is, is it a documented feature? 3. Can it be found out programmatically? (IDK how bash does it, since like I mentioned, RLIMIT_NPROC is nonexistent, and even with bash, changing the "-u" limit produces EINVAL, and Cygwin source code confirms that, too.) 4. Can the limit be changed (dynamically or compile time)? Thanks, Anton -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
