Yup, it's the same problem: spawning/forking with a fd's open to a mixture
of machines is screwing up somewhere.

	Brian

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:14:46PM -0500, Mario Charest wrote:
> The release not for 6.3.2 mentions:
> 
> ========================
> iff you're in a directory on a remote machine, and you pipe the output of
a command to xargs, and you redirect the output to a file, you get a
???cannot fork??? error. For example:
> 
> cd /net/remote_machine/tmp
> find . -type f | xargs grep FAIL > report.txt
> /bin/sh: cannot fork - try again
>     
> It seems to be a problem with permissions. Piping the output of xargs to
less works. (Ref# 29834) 
> 
> ============================================
> 
> I have the same problem when using mkifs:
> 
> cd /net/...
> mkifs qnxbasesmp.build >whatever
> 
> I get:
> 
> sh: cannot fork - try again
> Unable to link relocatable elf file
/usr/qnx630/target/qnx6/x86/boot/sys/startup-bios
> 
> 
> 
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