Hi kre,
Resources were in limited supply back then, and simply retrying (often after a short sleep, though not always required) would often end up succeeding
Yes, this was sleep(5) after each failure. Thanks, they're now all a simple single call to fork(). -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
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