Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:14:01 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: bde@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@netplex.com.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen popen.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810110912460.416-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199810110440.OAA08152@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Bruce Evans wrote: > 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(). Add make to that list. It used to crash 3/4 through a 'make release' on the alpha. I 'fixed' it by fixing a bug in malloc which caused it to use the wrong pagesize for the alpha. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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