Is System V.4 fork reliable?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <573 at oglvee.UUCP> jr at 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).
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