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From: steveh@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hemminger)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Uucp runs out of processes.
Message-ID: <347@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 15:55:03 EST
Article-I.D.: hammer.347
Posted: Mon Nov 14 15:55:03 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Nov-83 21:17:39 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR.
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When polling many sites at once it is possible for uuxqt to run
out of processes (exceed the max # processes/uid), and not execute the
command.  The fix is to put a while loop of the form:

	while ( (pid = fork()) < 0)
		sleep(30);

in shio.c and xqt.c (and where ever else fork() is used).