Sys V fork IS broken!

[Gary Mills]

gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <1990Jul28.195032.18746 at watdragon.waterloo.edu> tbray at watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:
>>  if ((child = fork()) == -1)
>>    FatalSystemError("Serious system trouble! Can't create process!");

>The bug is that your application makes no attempt to recover from a known
>class of error, EAGAIN in this case.  I would say the same thing about a

My old Sys V manual says EAGAIN is also set by fork when the limits on total
number of processes would be exceeded.  I don't think you would normally
want to retry in this case.  Issuing a message and exiting would be better.
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-Gary Mills-             -University of Manitoba-             -Winnipeg-