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Re: A process can't have more than 63 child processes.
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:19:54AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Yep. This has been noted before. The WaitForMultipleObjects
>>restriction makes it impractical to have more than 63 children.
>>
>>I guess we should set PSIZE to 64.
>>
>
>Your scope seems limiting. What about a Cygwin developed
>WaitForMultipleObjects? Perhaps even using the one from ReactOS. ;) I
>know, I know, where's the patch?
Yep. Since I wrote the code and have been living happily with it for
three years you can safely surmise that extending the limit is of
little interest to me.
I don't know of any way of extending the limit without adding another
thread to cygwin which I am really loath to do.
cgf