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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Who is responsible for a retry (was Re: Is System V.4 fork reliable?)
Message-ID: <499@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 90 04:55:48 GMT
References: <1809@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <35@kings.co.uk> <1820@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
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In article <1820@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
|When fork() does fail what can you do?  Not much, you can give up
|in disgust or retry.  BUT THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THE ANY AMOUNT
|OF RETRYING WILL GET YOU THAT NEW PROCESS.

On the other hand, if you don't retry, you're pretty much guarenteed not
to get a new process.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP