Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:26:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Subject: Old vfork bug-- still exist? Message-ID: <199807150326.WAA08056@detlev.UUCP>
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Emacs is presently configured to use fork instead of vfork. This is because of a kernel bug that existed at least as of 04Feb96: /* Needed to avoid hanging when child process writes an error message and exits -- enami tsugutomo <enami@ba2.so-net.or.jp>. */ #define vfork fork I don't really know what it's talking about, so I can't test to see if the bug still exists. Since NetBSD fixed the bug by 21Feb96, I would assume that we have as well. Can anybody confirm this? Is fork now as efficient as vfork anyway? Thanks, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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