From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 14:49:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA07940 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07929 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:49:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA180800879979761; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:49:21 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id LAA15349; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:49:22 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA06302; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:33:35 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01908; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:33:35 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:33:34 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Rob Miracle cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wierd File Descriptor problem In-Reply-To: <199711192010.PAA16430@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Rob Miracle wrote: > What does "Resource temporarily unavaiable" mean? Is it file descriptor > related? Any help would be appreciated. This machine is running 2.2.1. Quite a few pieces of software use this error string to indicate an error with fork(); usually to indicate that no further processes can be spawned at the moment. -- Jonathan Chen | "Vini, vidi, velcro... | I came, I saw, I stuck around"