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Commit: f9e86f419073605b4520848021cc042963c227c7
Parent: 77293034696e3e0b6c8b8fc1f96be091104b3d2b
Author: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 17 04:03:49 2007 -0700
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Tue Jul 17 10:23:03 2007 -0700
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/limits.h | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/limits.h b/include/linux/limits.h
index c4b4e57..2d0f941 100644
--- a/include/linux/limits.h
+++ b/include/linux/limits.h
@@ -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 */
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