On Friday, April 15, 2011 18:53:24 Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> If you do not want to "force" people to change their code, you will > >> probably need to offer a "stub" fork() to link against on non-MMU CPUs. > > > > the majority of the time, it isnt just fork() that needs to change. any > > exit() in the child needs to be changed to _exit() too. > > The sole purpose of vfork is to immediately invoke exec() Any other > purpose is forbidden. In what case would an exit even be required?
ignoring the fact that Linux allows many many more things to safely happen in the child of a vfork, what exactly are you supposed to do when that exec fails and returns ? or you pray it never does ? -mike
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