On Mar 7, 8:45am, Chet Ramey wrote: } } Bash-4.2 will sleep for 1, 2, 4, then 8 seconds if a fork fails, trying } after each sleep to reap dead children. It will give up after that and } report the fork failure. Hmm, that seems like it could be a problem in some rare cases. Is there a way to turn this off?