title: Maximum number of children processes on Linux
body: <p>The code below will spawn as many children as possible. Themselves won't fork further, and will become zombies once the parent process exits.<br>
  How many children processes will the parent process spawn ?</p>
  
  <pre><code>int main(int argc, char *arg[])
  {
       while(fork() &gt; 0);
  }
  </code></pre>