Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Is System V.4 fork reliable? Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 90 21:44:39 GMT References: <561@oglvee.UUCP> <480@amanue.UUCP> <13426@cbmvax.commodore.com> <573@oglvee.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <573@oglvee.UUCP> jr@oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes: > The larger question is *why can't the kernel sleep* when it needs more memory > for a fork??? Even if it can't do it right then, it could check right before leaving kernel mode. Or if that's politically incorrect, change fork.o in libc.a to implement the check for EAGAIN and do an exponential backoff (or whatever). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`