vfork specs
Stanislav Meduna
stano@trillian.eunet.sk
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999
> Assume this:
>
> void
> bar ()
> {
> pid_t p = baz ();
> if (p == 0)
> foo (0);
> }
> pid_t
> baz ()
> {
> return vfork ();
> }
The Single Unix Specification says:
: The vfork() function has the same effect as fork(),
: except that the behaviour is undefined if the process
: created by vfork() either modifies any data other than
: a variable of type pid_t used to store the return value
: from vfork(), or returns from the function in which
: vfork() was called, or calls any other function before
: successfully calling _exit() or one of the exec family
: of functions.
So this one is (if I interpret it correctly)
definitly bad code.
Regards
--
Stano
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