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Date:      Sun, 11 Oct 1998 19:36:03 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen popen.c
Message-ID:  <19981011193603.A28135@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199810110906.CAA02043@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@backplane.com on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:06:17AM -0700
References:  <199810110309.LAA18511@spinner.netplex.com.au> <199810110906.CAA02043@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:06:17AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Wait a second!!!!!! vfork() was specifically designed for situations
>     where you call the exec*() functions.  That's the whole point of 
>     using vfork() rather then fork()!!!!!

Yes, I agree too. There is a lots programs which do that way, much more
than in our src tree. Exec*() must be fixed instead to avoid calling
malloc() 

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
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