Hi Jakub, On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 10:47, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>, 2020-04-17, 09:18: > >> $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max > >> 30000 > >> $ gcc clonetest.c -o clonetest > >> $ ./clonetest > >> Got a clone(2) failure; 28 (No space left on device). Made 28822 children. > > > >I *don't* reproduce this. On my Fedora 31 system, the error I see is EAGAIN. > > AFAICT this was fixed in the mean time, in v4.19: > https://git.kernel.org/linus/f83606f5eb007adc33bc8541ede00590f477bdeb Thanks for clearing that up! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
