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

[mmh] / uip / whatnow.c

diff --git a/uip/whatnow.c b/uip/whatnow.c
index 761fea1..b809ebe 100644 (file)
--- a/uip/whatnow.c
+++ b/uip/whatnow.c
@@ -770,15 +770,13 @@ static int
 sendfile(char **arg, char *file, int pushsw)
 {
        pid_t child_id;
-       int i, vecp;
+       int vecp;
        char *vec[MAXARGS];
 
        context_save();  /* save the context file */
        fflush(stdout);
 
-       for (i = 0; (child_id = fork()) == NOTOK && i < 5; i++)
-               sleep(5);
-       switch (child_id) {
+       switch (child_id = fork()) {
        case NOTOK:
                advise(NULL, "unable to fork, so sending directly...");
                /* fall */