Occaisionally we see a failure in a z/OS Unix program, where "fork" fails with the following message:
12.41.28 S0079894 BPXP012I FORK SYSCALL TERMINATED DURING CHILD PROCESSING WITH 387 RETURN CODE 00000070, REASON CODE 00000004. Note that RC=70 is "Resource temporarily unavailable", reason code (4) is undocumented. It is accompanied by a message in stderr: fork: EDC5112I Resource temporarily unavailable. (errno2=0x0B150020) This reason code (0B150020) is documented: ============== JRForkExitRcParentBadEnv: Forking is not supported under the current parent environment Action: The fork service supports only programs running with a PSW security key of 8. The following are conditions in the parent process that may cause this error to be reported: o If any (E)SPIE for the current RB is not key 8 o When any SCB for the current RB is not key 8 Correct any error conditions and resubmit the job. ============== Its wierd, since parent program normally works fine. It is accompanied by an unknown console message PERN001I (with a big string of hex data). Has anyone seen this error or recognize the source of the PERN001I message? Has anyone seen this particular error in fork? Any ideas would be appreciated, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
