Who is responsible for a retry

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <18479 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>fork() never failed before for lack of kernel memory - the change in
>behavior was recently introduced - this is what people are complaining
>about.

Actually, there have been several different implementations of fork(),
all of which have been able to fail for reasons of a transient shortage
of resources.  The details are the only thing that have varied..