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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:29:02 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, se@freebsd.org
Cc:        ache@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vfork problem in gcc (was: Re: cvs commit:  src/usr.bin/vacation vacation.c)
Message-ID:  <199704250529.PAA16680@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I had just fail "gcc -pipe" with an "vfork: interrupted system call"
>(from memory) message. This happened reproducible with one certain
>source file, removing "-pipe" allowed to compile that file, too ...

>This might affect people doing a "make world" with "-pipe", I guess.
>There is only one use of vfork in gcc.c (on line 2061). Lots of files
>that are closed in the child, and it does call exit(), if the exec()
>fails ... 

It seems OK except for the exit().  The exit code of -1 is also fishy.
127 might be right.

Bruce



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