Re: bash should retry a fork() returning EAGAIN

2007-09-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Matthew Woehlke on 9/18/2007 4:39 PM: > Martin Koeppe wrote: >> I'm using bash 3.1 on interix. There fork() may fail with EAGAIN if >> e.g. several builds (configures) are running in parallel. >> Unfortunately, fork() isn't retried and con

Re: bash should retry a fork() returning EAGAIN

2007-09-18 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Martin Koeppe wrote: I'm using bash 3.1 on interix. There fork() may fail with EAGAIN if e.g. several builds (configures) are running in parallel. Unfortunately, fork() isn't retried and configure stops. So I suggest adding this patch to bash which retries fork() when it fails with EAGAIN. I