Maximum number of processes in linux [closed]

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Your kernel should export this information in procfs:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max

This is the maximum number of unique process identifiers your system can support.

Since it is a file, /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max can be inspected from any capable programming language.

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