On today's systems fork() will hardly fail, thus removed the fork retry loops.

[mmh] / uip / mhshowsbr.c

diff --git a/uip/mhshowsbr.c b/uip/mhshowsbr.c
index 15991c1..fe9a626 100644 (file)
--- a/uip/mhshowsbr.c
+++ b/uip/mhshowsbr.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static void
 DisplayMsgHeader(CT ct, char *form)
 {
        pid_t child_id;
-       int i, vecp;
+       int vecp;
        char *vec[8];
 
        vecp = 0;
@@ -205,10 +205,7 @@ DisplayMsgHeader(CT ct, char *form)
 
        fflush(stdout);
 
-       for (i = 0; (child_id = fork()) == NOTOK && i < 5; i++)
-               sleep(5);
-
-       switch (child_id) {
+       switch (child_id = fork()) {
        case NOTOK:
                adios("fork", "unable to");
                /* NOTREACHED */
@@ -519,7 +516,6 @@ show_content_aux2(CT ct, int serial, int alternate, char *cracked,
        char *buffer, int fd, int xlist, int xstdin, int xtty)
 {
        pid_t child_id;
-       int i;
        char *vec[4], exec[BUFSIZ + sizeof "exec "];
 
        if (debugsw || cracked) {
@@ -559,9 +555,7 @@ show_content_aux2(CT ct, int serial, int alternate, char *cracked,
 
        fflush(stdout);
 
-       for (i = 0; (child_id = fork()) == NOTOK && i < 5; i++)
-               sleep(5);
-       switch (child_id) {
+       switch (child_id = fork()) {
        case NOTOK:
                advise("fork", "unable to");
                (*ct->c_ceclosefnx) (ct);