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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:52:30 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: Cygwin Developers <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: vfork / setsid interaction
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:28:09AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> >IIRC According to SUSv2, calling *anything* after [v]fork() other than
> >exec() may lead to unexpected behaviour. 
> >
> >You might like to reference the SUSv2 and see what the expected
> >behaviour is.
> 
> Granted, but compatibility with historical UNIX behavior makes it
> easier to port things.

Not if compatibility is a big problem.  And the vfork() implementation
isn't thought to be coincidentally compatible with some random UNIX
but to be a fast implementation to allow the common cases covered
by the standards.  Otherwise we could stick with fork() and a vfork()
which just calls fork().

Corinna

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