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Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"



is somebody running main(for(;;){fork();})? :)

Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote:
> If I su, I then get the message "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"
> on almost every command I try.
> 
> I found that `exec sh' let me do things.  So it seems that something has
> changed in the set-up of bash or su
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