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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:48:38 -0800
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Comments: In reply to Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
 "Re: job control problem" (Mar  7,  8:45am)
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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?