Re: [Exim] Pipe - child create failed

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Daniel Smith
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Pipe - child create failed
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Daniel Smith wrote:

> error 0 0:Failed to create child process for local_delivery transport


Looking at the code (child_open() in child.c, called from
transports/pipe.c), it seems this could be one of two things:

(1) The call to pipe() failed;
(2) The call to fork() failed.

The 0 0 is just that Exim hasn't actually recorded the specific error.
(I will see if I can make it do better in due course.)

Is there a limit on the number of pipes you can create on your system?
Is the process limit being hit?

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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