[RFA] Use vfork in shell_escape

[Michael Snyder]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:54:01PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch is pretty obvious.  I couldn't figure out why my machine was
> > > running out of memory; forking GDB to run an 'ls' during the maint.exp tests
> > > can be a bit heavy, since it may have all of glibc's debug info loaded.
> > > This patch seems logical to me... OK to commit?
> >
> > Not as is.  There's some auto-confery involved, since many systems
> > (some systems?) don't have vfork.  Grep for vfork in fork-child.c.
> 
> Not as much as there used to be.  But you're right, I goofed.  OK with
> the addition of '#include "gdb_vfork.h"', which is all fork-child.c
> uses now?

For all I know, that's OK -- but I don't know.
I'll step back now, and wait for someone who does.