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Re: [Nmh-workers] Why Attempt fork(2) up to Five Times?
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Why Attempt fork(2) up to Five Times? |
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Sat, 09 Sep 2017 11:41:17 +0100 |
Hi kre,
> Resources were in limited supply back then, and simply retrying (often
> after a short sleep, though not always required) would often end up
> succeeding
Yes, this was sleep(5) after each failure.
Thanks, they're now all a simple single call to fork().
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