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Subject: question about _exit() function
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Hi,

is the _exit() function safe for a thread ?
my program use vfork() and then execve in a thread context.
The documentation mentions that the process has to call _exit() in case
of failure.
But this _exit() is really safe for the parent thread ?

Thanks in advance for the reply.