Why the sleep() call?
On 16 Feb 2002, Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Index: socket.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/rsync/socket.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.74
> diff -u -u -r1.74 socket.c
> +++ socket.c 16 Feb 2002 23:08:47 -0000
> @@ -387,6 +387,7 @@
> for each incoming connection */
> while (1) {
> fd_set fds;
> + pid_t pid;
> int fd;
> struct sockaddr_storage addr;
> socklen_t addrlen = sizeof addr;
> @@ -418,12 +419,17 @@
> while (waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG) > 0);
> #endif
>
> - if (fork()==0) {
> + if ((pid = fork()) == 0) {
> close(s);
> /* open log file in child before possibly giving
> up privileges */
> log_open();
> _exit(fn(fd));
> + } else if (pid < 0) {
> + rprintf(FERROR, "could not create child process: %s\n",
> + strerror(errno));
> + close(fd);
> + sleep(2);
> }
>
> close(fd);
--
Martin
