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Remove CHILD_MAX

The CHILD_MAX macro in limits.h should not be there.  It claims to be the
limit on processes a user can own, but its value is wrong for that.
There is no constant value, but a variable resource limit (RLIMIT_NPROC).
Nothing in the kernel uses CHILD_MAX.

The proper thing to do according to POSIX is not to define CHILD_MAX at all.
The sysconf (_SC_CHILD_MAX) implementation works by calling getrlimit.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Roland McGrath 18 years ago
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@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 #define NGROUPS_MAX    65536	/* supplemental group IDs are available */
 #define ARG_MAX       131072	/* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */
-#define CHILD_MAX        999    /* no limit :-) */
 #define LINK_MAX         127	/* # links a file may have */
 #define MAX_CANON        255	/* size of the canonical input queue */
 #define MAX_INPUT        255	/* size of the type-ahead buffer */