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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: "limit maxprocs" vs. "sysctl kern.maxprocperuid"
To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 20:48:50 +0200 (MET DST)
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Tom Samplonius wrote:
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> 
>   What is the exact relationship between csh's "limit maxproc" and 
> "sysctl kern.maxprocperuid"?

Limit maxproc is valid only for the current process and all of its children.

The other one is global and effective immediately for *all* uids.

-Guido