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

[mmh] / uip / send.c

diff --git a/uip/send.c b/uip/send.c
index 6fcccad..2ef1fe7 100644 (file)
--- a/uip/send.c
+++ b/uip/send.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static int
 sendaux(char **vec, int vecp, char *drft, struct stat *st)
 {
        pid_t child_id;
-       int i, status, fd;
+       int status, fd;
        char backup[BUFSIZ];
 
        /*
@@ -635,10 +635,7 @@ sendaux(char **vec, int vecp, char *drft, struct stat *st)
        }
        vec[vecp] = NULL;
 
-       for (i = 0; (child_id = fork()) == NOTOK && i < 5; i++) {
-               sleep(5);
-       }
-       switch (child_id) {
+       switch (child_id = fork()) {
        case -1:
                /* oops -- fork error */
                adios("fork", "unable to");
@@ -703,14 +700,10 @@ static void
 alert(char *file, int out)
 {
        pid_t child_id;
-       int i, in;
+       int in;
        char buf[BUFSIZ];
 
-       for (i = 0; (child_id = fork()) == NOTOK && i < 5; i++) {
-               sleep(5);
-       }
-
-       switch (child_id) {
+       switch (child_id = fork()) {
        case NOTOK:
                /* oops -- fork error */
                advise("fork", "unable to");