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kern/50480: posix_spawn vs. fork code duplication
>Number: 50480
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: posix_spawn vs. fork code duplication
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 26 23:15:00 +0000 2015
>Originator: David A. Holland
>Release: NetBSD 7.99.21 (20151118)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD valkyrie 7.99.1 NetBSD 7.99.1 (VALKYRIE) #17: Wed Oct 14 03:21:03 EDT 2015 dholland@valkyrie:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/VALKYRIE amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
Most of the process-copying logic in fork is cutpasted into
posix_spawn. Except the posix_spawn copy isn't the same because
posix_spawn doesn't support (or have any reason to support) clone().
This is an obvious long-term hazard.
>How-To-Repeat:
code reading
>Fix:
one of those fun source reorgs
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