system and popen fail in case of big application

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:44 PM Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:16 PM Sergey Melnikov
> <melnikov.sergey.v@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If so, I may implement and contribute this to glibc.
>
> What would be worthwhile is to change popen and system so that they
> internally use *vfork*, on systems where vfork is not the same as fork.

I meant to say explicitly that if you write patches that do this, we
will definitely consider them for inclusion.  However, you're going to
need to file a copyright assignment with the FSF.  This can be slow,
so you should get the process started immediately.  See
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist#FSF_copyright_Assignment
.

zw