On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 01:53, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> >>> If you do not want to "force" people to change their code, you will >>> probably need to offer a "stub" fork() to link against on non-MMU CPUs. >> >> the majority of the time, it isnt just fork() that needs to change. any >> exit() in the child needs to be changed to _exit() too. > > The sole purpose of vfork is to immediately invoke exec() Any other purpose > is forbidden. In what case would an exit even be required? >
exec() may fail. And you need to exit somehow. Calling of exit() in such situation is a bad thing because it call atexit handlers. Thus you need _exit(). -- Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nose...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
