Is System V.4 fork reliable?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <573 at oglvee.UUCP> jr at oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:
-But if system calls fail simply because of a very temporary bout of activity,
-that is *not my problem*!  It's the kernel's problem.  At least it should be:
-that's what "I'm paying the kernel for" so to speak.  And *I CAN'T FIX IT*
-myself.  If utilities haven't been rewritten to do the right thing with EAGAIN
-after fork(), and I'm only a binary licensee, what can I do about it?

Oh, good grief.  It is SILLY to say that the kernel should be redesigned
to compensate for bugs in application programs.