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dllthomas on Aug 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: fork() can fail

Parent said as soon as it is able to fork a new process, which still isn't quite right (it's the child that quits, as you say) but not the error you seem to be responding to.

marcosdumay on Aug 21, 2014 [–]

He didn't say this when I replied.

dllthomas on Aug 21, 2014 | [–]

Ah, do you remember what it said?

TheLoneWolfling on Aug 21, 2014 | | [–]

I got it swapped around initially:

"while(1) {fork()}; is "better", as the version you mention will quit as soon as it is not able to fork a new process."

or something similar

dllthomas on Aug 21, 2014 | | [–]

Gotcha.

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