vfork glibc clarification
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@cygnus.com
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999
"Jack Howarth" <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu> writes:
> Could we get a clarification on the exact status of vfork in the cvs?
> I take it that the vfork implementation on all platforms including ppc
> was broken in glibc 2.0.110. Has this problem already been addressed for
> all platforms in the cvs?
No. All platforms beside Alpha, m68k, and ix86 simply don't use the
syscall so far. I need probably asm implementations from every port
maintainer.
> Being so close to the release of glibc 2.1 it would be unfortunate
> if vfork was left broken accidently for any of the platforms.
It will not be broken but rather sub-optimal for some platforms.
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