* John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011218 18:41] wrote:
> 
> Actually, it's a bit worse than that.  The parent process will sleep on itself
> waiting to be woken up, but when the child exits, it will wake up init
> (p->p_pptr) not the waiting process, so if you do a rfork(..., RFNOWAIT |
> RFPPWAIT); then the parent process will hang and never return.
> 
> Perhaps fork1() should return EINVAL if both flags are set.
> 

Good idea.

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