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- From: dougm@boulder.Central.Sun.COM (Doug McCallum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: No more processes ? It's a lie !
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:10:46
- Organization: SunSoft, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <DOUGM.92Sep4151046@boulder.Central.Sun.COM>
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- In-reply-to: enertec@netcom.com's message of Thu, 03 Sep 92 16:09:34 GMT
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- The "poll()" call can return EAGAIN but it has nothing to do with
- number of processes. The EAGAIN error return was extended
- (overloaded) to mean that you should try the poll call again. Many
- applications do not do that and assume that it is a fatal error. The
- EAGAIN on a poll means that some internal data structure was
- unavailable at the time of the call. Most of the time this is
- transient and should clear up. The documentation even says you should
- try again.
-