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

bash should retry a fork() returning EAGAIN

2007-09-17 Thread Martin Koeppe
Hi all, 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. Idea is from