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fork.2: ffix 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2017-02-18 11:16:24 +01:00
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@ -212,23 +212,31 @@ is set appropriately.
.B EAGAIN
.\" NOTE! The following should match the description in pthread_create(3)
A system-imposed limit on the number of threads was encountered.
There are a number of limits that may trigger this error: the
There are a number of limits that may trigger this error:
.RS
.IP * 3
the
.BR RLIMIT_NPROC
soft resource limit (set via
.BR setrlimit (2)),
which limits the number of processes and threads for a real user ID,
was reached;
.IP *
the kernel's system-wide limit on the number of processes and threads,
.IR /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max ,
was reached (see
.BR proc (5));
.IP *
the maximum number of PIDs,
.IR /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max ,
was reached (see
.BR proc (5));
or the PID limit
.RB ( pids.max )
or
.IP *
the PID limit
.RI ( pids.max )
imposed by the cgroup "process number" (PIDs) controller was reached.
.RE
.TP
.B EAGAIN
The caller is operating under the