Re: question about _exit() function

2003-11-28 Thread Terry Lambert
rmkml wrote: is the _exit() function safe for a thread ? my program use vfork() and then execve in a thread context. The documentation mentions that the process has to call _exit() in case of failure. But this _exit() is really safe for the parent thread ? The behaviour is undefined in the

Re: question about _exit() function

2003-11-28 Thread rmkml
: question about _exit() function rmkml wrote: is the _exit() function safe for a thread ? my program use vfork() and then execve in a thread context. The documentation mentions that the process has to call _exit() in case of failure. But this _exit() is really safe for the parent thread

Re: question about _exit() function

2003-11-28 Thread Terry Lambert
rmkml wrote: Thanks a lot for the answer. I will change vfork() with fork(). An another question: in the man page of vfork() it is mentionned that the fork() function has to use _exit(0) too when something wrong with the execve() happens! I can see how you might read it this way, but that's

question about _exit() function

2003-11-27 Thread rmkml
Hi, is the _exit() function safe for a thread ? my program use vfork() and then execve in a thread context. The documentation mentions that the process has to call _exit() in case of failure. But this _exit() is really safe for the parent thread ? Thanks in advance for the reply.

Re: question about _exit() function

2003-11-27 Thread rmkml
and I use freebsd v4.8. On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, rmkml wrote: Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:20:04 +0100 (CET) From: rmkml [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question about _exit() function Hi, is the _exit() function safe for a thread ? my program use vfork() and then execve