Module Name: src
Committed By: kamil
Date: Tue Jun 11 12:47:34 UTC 2019
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/gen: posix_spawn.3
Log Message:
Correct outdated note that posix_spawn(3) is implemented with vfork(2)
The original FreeBSD libc code uses vfork(2), it's not the case for NetBSD
as there is a dedicated kernel syscall.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3
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Modified files:
Index: src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3
diff -u src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3:1.6 src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3:1.7
--- src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3:1.6 Sun Feb 2 16:59:06 2014
+++ src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3 Tue Jun 11 12:47:34 2019
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: posix_spawn.3,v 1.6 2014/02/02 16:59:06 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: posix_spawn.3,v 1.7 2019/06/11 12:47:34 kamil Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Schouten <e...@freebsd.org>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3,v 1.2.2.1.4.1 2010/06/14 02:09:06 kensmith Exp $
.\"
-.Dd February 2, 2014
+.Dd June 11, 2019
.Dt POSIX_SPAWN 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -312,11 +312,9 @@ had been called to create a child proces
.Fn execve
had been called by the child process to execute the new process image.
.Pp
-The implementation uses vfork(), thus the fork handlers are not run when
-.Fn posix_spawn
-or
-.Fn posix_spawnp
-is called.
+This implementation does not run
+.Xr pthread_atfork 3
+callbacks.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion,
.Fn posix_spawn
