Is System V.4 fork reliable?

[eric.a.olson]

In article <2123 at cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>All the applications programs that I know of assume that that there is
>no point retrying a failed fork().  I've seen quite a few books about
>programming in a UNIX environment, and I don't recall seeing a
>recommendation that a failed fork() be retried.


	Ummm.... well, just why do you think the errno
	is called 'EAGAIN'  ?