popen/pclose problem in Linux 2.2.x with vfork/glibc 2.1

Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999


Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:

|> I haven't been following this thread carefully so I don't know if this
|> has been mentioned before, but by code inspection here's an untested
|> patch for what seems to me to be a vfork-related bug in glibc 2.1.1
|> libio/iopopen.c.  The original code is executed in the child but it
|> affects the parent's proc_file_chain when vfork is used.

Thanks, i have checked this in.

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