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From: junk1@cbnews.att.com (eric.a.olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Is System V.4 fork reliable?
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.125426.19071@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 12:54:26 GMT
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In article <2123@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@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'  ?