>On 12/19/06, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's not something one is supposed to take advantage of! >> >> >From vfork(2) (albeit admittedly the SX version of the man page): >> The vfork() function is deprecated. Its sole legitimate use as a prelude to >> an immediate call to a function from the exec family can be achieved safely by posix_spawn(3C) or posix_spawnp(3C). >Read >http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-October/001587.html >and following posts >posix_spawn(3C) is broken in Solaris 11/10 and I would not use it to >use until Sun fixes this and ports the fix back to older Solaris >versions
I would say that calling it "broken" is way too strong. (The particular bug you refer to is fixed in current Nevada) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
