Why does pthread_create() return ENOMEM instead of EAGAIN when resources are exhausted?
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Issue
On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, when faced with a low memory situation, the pthread_create() system call may erroneously return ENOMEM when that is not a valid error code for the system call in question. It should be returning EAGAIN.
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