The new posix_spawn{p} implementation [1] call exit on failure case where it should call _exit. Although POSIX allows posix_spawn to call atfork handlers, it introduces opportunities for atfork-related race conditions and add performance overhead from handler calling (BZ#14499). [1] Commit 9ff72da471a509a8c19791efe469f47fa6977410
Fixed by 3e040a2d5f59c5494910bd6451b3dcb69221a047.
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing the project "GNU C Library master sources". The branch, master has been updated via 3e040a2d5f59c5494910bd6451b3dcb69221a047 (commit) from c30c3f46a5f2e60639dab888c487397b579942e9 (commit) Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those revisions in full, below. - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=3e040a2d5f59c5494910bd6451b3dcb69221a047 commit 3e040a2d5f59c5494910bd6451b3dcb69221a047 Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Date: Mon May 30 10:04:47 2016 -0300 posix: Call _exit in failure case for posix_spawn{p} (BZ#20178) This patch call _exit instead of exit in failure case for the spawned child in Linux posix_spawn{p} implementation. Tested on x86_64. [BZ #20178] * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c (__spawni_child): Call _exit on failure instead of exit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)