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From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
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Subject: Maximum number of forked processes
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How does one control the maximum number of forked processes from within
the parent process? 

Since this is an elementary question but regards programming, I was
uncertain whether to send it to -questions or -hackers.

Charles Mott