ons 2009-11-25 klockan 09:07 +1100 skrev Robert Collins:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:45 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > tis 2009-11-24 klockan 15:06 +1100 skrev Robert Collins:
> >
> > > http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/vfork.html has some interesting notes
> > > from the BSD world about this.
> >
> > vfork is fundamentally broken.
>
> Beyond the obvious (that it doesn't separate the memory out?)
Undefined results if any of the following is used:
- threads
- signals
- any form of output
- pretty much any other syscall than an successful execve
> > there is other alternatives coming, getting around the virtual memory
> > issue when starting new processes.
>
> What are they called?
Searching.. posix_spawn() and it's posix_spawnp() wrapper seems to be
the one.
Regards
Henrik
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