On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:20:52 +0000 (GMT)
Terry Lambert <tlamb...@primenet.com> wrote:
> This is a bug.
...but it's a bug in fork(), too. Not just vfork().
> For other bugs in vfork(), look at the fact that the vacation
> program does not correctly deal with messages.
...fwiw, NetBSD fixed the vacation(1) bug and another bug in popen(),
both of which manifested themselves when NetBSD got a Real Vfork.
...there's actually a fair amount of code that needs to be checked out
and fixed when you have a Real Vfork, exit() vs _exit(), etc.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thor...@nas.nasa.gov>
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