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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:57:58 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Doubt of system(3)
Message-ID:  <20011002175758.M59854@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011002220152.A3056@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>; from davidt@yadt.co.uk on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:01:52PM %2B0100
References:  <200109291527.f8TFRrU76727.toshi@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20010929153433.U59854@elvis.mu.org> <20010929214338.A57903@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20010929221658.B57903@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20010929170332.Y59854@elvis.mu.org> <20010929232839.A91153@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <20011002130942.C704@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20011002112707.C59854@elvis.mu.org> <20011002220152.A3056@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>

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* David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk> [011002 16:02] wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> [011002 05:21] wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:28:39PM +0100, David Taylor wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > IMO, the below patch is probably the best solution.
> > > 
> > > Yep, it also fixes the fact that the return value from wait4() needs
> > > to be preserved, at least for the return statement of __system().
> > 
> > Aaaaaaaaaaah!  Forgot about it, I'm going to upgrade my workstation
> > now and commit it if it works, probably tonight.
> > 
> > If someone else can test it earlier, by all means commit it.
> 
> Just to say that as I did a make world today, I took the opportunity to test
> the patch, and it does fix the bug.

Thanks for taking the time to do this and thanks for the feedback.

-Alfred

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