Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:39:18 -0400 From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@bellatlantic.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: bsddiy@yahoo.com, ache@nagual.pp.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c (fwd) Message-ID: <20020811223918.686276ff.kabaev@bellatlantic.net> In-Reply-To: <3D571562.B7CDC954@elischer.org> References: <20020811132854.99343.qmail@web20907.mail.yahoo.com> <3D571562.B7CDC954@elischer.org>
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> David Xu wrote: > > want, and all job control gets weird. I suguest this job control > > assumption should be removed, strange thing is why su calls fork()? > > why doesn't call directly execvl()? I don't see su calls fork() in > > OpenBSD. This has to do with PAM, AFAIK. Someone has to call PAM session cleanup hooks, that's why another process for the command is forked. -- Alexander Kabaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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