Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:59:41 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: ache@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, CVS-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/vacation vacation.c Message-ID: <199704240959.TAA12833@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> Modified: usr.bin/vacation vacation.c > Log: > Better fix: return vfork() again, but remove clobbering fclose() > and use _exit() instead of exit() I think it's better to use fork() except in programs that fork a lot. Even the simplest use: if ((pid = vfork()) == 0) execl(...); is not guaranteed to work (it depends on there being a stack frame and the compiler not doing anything unusual with it). Bruce
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