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On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:16:40PM +0200, grifo wrote:
> hello,
> today a friend of mine tried the following code on my NetBSD:
>=20
> int main()
> {
> 	while (1)=20
> 	   fork();
> }
>=20
> well, we were wondering why if launched from tty's the operating
> systems blocks the program saying: "proc table is full, please=20
> increase kern.maxproc", while when run from XFree86 it freeze
> the system and need to be rebooted "phisically".

Because when it's run from XFree86, it's run as root. And root's supposed=
=20
to know better than to do this.

Take care,

Bill

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