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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: portal pid not correct...
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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 01:04:39 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <19971104011630.17437@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Nov 4, 97 01:16:30 am
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> > > 
> > > comments? ideas?
> > 
> > Use vfork for the side effect before child exit/exec.  Man vfork for
> > details.
> 
> but I thought that the child ran until it either exit'd of exec'd? how
> would the parent mount it while the child waited? from man vfork:
> The parent process is suspended while the child is using
>      its resources.

The child does the mount, and the parent waits, in this scheme.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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