From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 11 01:14:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00892 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 01:14:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00865; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 01:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA14811; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:14:01 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:14:01 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Bruce Evans 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 In-Reply-To: <199810110440.OAA08152@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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