Re: "make check" failure with sort-compress on OSF and Linux

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> It would be nice if sort could calculate how many processes it can fork,
> and then ensure that it never uses more than say 25% of that number of
> process slots.

Well, there's always getrlimit(). I'm not sure about a portable way to 
find out what chunk of that is in use, but even limiting process spawns 
to 1/4 of the rlimit would help a bit. Of course failing gracefully (or 
retrying) would be better.

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