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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:31:23 -0700
From: "Bob Bae" <bob AT fastfiletransfer DOT com>
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Subject: max number of spawn processes
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Hi

I am using the lastest cygwin snapshot 20070810 source base.  I cannot
spawn more than 256 processes.  I tried changing CHILD_MAX and
OPEN_MAX to increase the limit but the same limit applies in my test
programs.

Is there a way to increase the limit?

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