On 12/6/14 7:06 AM, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Fix the way bash blocks the delivery of signals when it can't
> fork so keyboard interrupts or signals received otherwise still
> have a way to get through. Stop trying to fork after some
> attempts and provide a reasonable emergency code-path for the
> case that bash cannot fork.
Bash already does this. The code in make_child attempts to reap dead
child processes with waitpid() then sleeps for `forksleep' seconds.
forksleep increases from 1 to 16, then bash gives up and the attempt
fails. When I test, it returns to the prompt.
Chet
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