Re: job control problem

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>]

On 3/7/12 12:48 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mar 7,  8:45am, Chet Ramey wrote:
> }
> } Bash-4.2 will sleep for 1, 2, 4, then 8 seconds if a fork fails, trying
> } after each sleep to reap dead children.  It will give up after that and
> } report the fork failure.
> 
> Hmm, that seems like it could be a problem in some rare cases.  Is there
> a way to turn this off?

You can recompile bash with FORKSLEEP_MAX = 0 if you want to disable it.
What rare cases were you thinking of?

Chet
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