vfork / setsid interaction

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 13 07:18:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 00:15, Joe Buehler wrote:
> I assume this is not "correct" behavior because this is the standard way
> that emacs does things on other platforms.

IIRC According to SUSv2, calling *anything* after [v]fork() other than
exec() may lead to unexpected behaviour. 

You might like to reference the SUSv2 and see what the expected
behaviour is.

Rob

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