Remove CHILD_MAX
commitf9e86f419073605b4520848021cc042963c227c7
authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:03:49 +0000 (17 04:03 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:23:03 +0000 (17 10:23 -0700)
tree15546406224d741234da20fc6431d6b8af76bc98
parent77293034696e3e0b6c8b8fc1f96be091104b3d2b
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>
include/linux/limits.h