ping:7: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable #32
Description
Running on macOS Big Sur 11.6, Darwin BirkhoffMBPR 20.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0: Mon Aug 30 06:12:21 PDT 2021; root:xnu-7195.141.6~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 i386 MacBookPro13,2 Darwin, I get the following:
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denilsonsa/prettyping/master/prettyping
--2021-11-07 14:56:02-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denilsonsa/prettyping/master/prettyping
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.109.133, 185.199.110.133, 185.199.111.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.109.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 23396 (23K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘prettyping’
prettyping 100%[========================================================>] 22.85K 12.8KB/s in 1.8s
2021-11-07 14:56:05 (12.8 KB/s) - ‘prettyping’ saved [23396/23396]
$ chmod +x prettyping
$ ./prettyping 1.1.1.1
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230 █ ∞
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Last message repeated 2 times.
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sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
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ping:7: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
$ /sbin/ping 1.1.1.1
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=55.997 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=45.403 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=52.760 ms
^C
--- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 25.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 45.403/51.387/55.997/4.433 msLooks like prettyping is exhausting shell resources somehow, while the stock ping utility functions normally.