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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, peter@netplex.com.au
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen popen.c
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More vfork breakage:  vfork is used in about 50 programs in /usr/src.
It is misused in all 7 programs that I looked at:

	as cron libdialog mv rcp rcs vipw

Most of these call execl() from the forked child.  cron calls execvp(),
which calls strdup().

Bruce


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