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Date:      Sun, 11 Oct 1998 14:40:28 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, peter@netplex.com.au
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen popen.c
Message-ID:  <199810110440.OAA08152@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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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().

Bruce


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