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Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] posix_spawn not used on Linux?
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> On both Fedora and Suse I get:
> ./pstest
> # posix_spawn() did not fail as expected, waitpid status 0, pid=3080.
> 
> Pretty much a POSIX conformance issue which need to be passed to
> Fedora and Suse upstream.
> 
> Irek
> 
> 

However, if Fedora and Suse provide vfork(), and vfork() is not the
same as fork()  (for example they share the data space), then
ksh should use vfork() rather than fork.

strace should show vfork() being called instead of clone().

David Korn
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