From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26821 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2012 19:23:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 16869 Received: (qmail 10244 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2012 19:23:44 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at case.edu designates 129.22.105.36 as permitted sender) Message-ID: <4F57B5BA.6060201@case.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:23:38 -0500 From: Chet Ramey Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Schaefer CC: chet.ramey@case.edu, zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: job control problem References: <2c45df49.32a93.135e774fca6.Coremail.hanpingtian@163.com> <120306214608.ZM11429@torch.brasslantern.com> <4F57666B.70704@case.edu> <120307094838.ZM12735@torch.brasslantern.com> In-Reply-To: <120307094838.ZM12735@torch.brasslantern.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1.tis.cwru.edu) 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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/