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UWA week 36 (2nd semester, mid-semester break) ↓

MAX_RUNNING_PROCESSES constant clarification (both)

6:14pm Thu 7th Sep, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> Or would it be the maximum number of processes running at a particular time at which the program is being run?

Yes, this.

> I was wondering about this because, if we were to manipulate a single command with only the spawn system call, we would be able to create infinite processes, and thus wouldn't this require dynamic memory allocation? I tried this in the sample solution and the output stopped after a large number of lines were printed to the screen.

Your project should be able to spawn an infinite number of processes(!), though at most MAX_RUNNING_PROCESSES will ever be running at any one time.