Subject: Re: popen reentrant (was Re: SA/pthread and vfork)
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/11/2003 19:17:30
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:58:44AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> > > Are you going to 'fix' sh then?
> >
> > Uhm, I thought our sh doesn't use vfork() because it has issues.
>
> They are all (or at least all the known ones are) fixed.
>
>
> the point remains that /bin/sh has been using fork() not vfork() for
> basiaclly the entire life of netbsd... the few attempts at changing
> this have so far all failed. sh doesn't need 'fixing'.
The current /bin/sh uses vfork(), I know - I fixed some of the bugs!
David
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