Who is responsible for a retry (was Re: Is System V.4 fork reliable?)

[Brian Matthews]

In article <1820 at necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd at 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 at 6sceng.UUCP