The original BSD man page warned that the behavior should not be relied on.
Thomas On Nov 25, 2011 4:10 PM, "Christian Grothoff" <christ...@grothoff.org> wrote: > On 11/25/2011 07:50 PM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > >> Programs which depend on the special suspend-the-parent behavior of >> vfork were always regarded as buggy... >> > > So relying on the well-documented behavior of a system call is a bug? Did > you even read about the scenario I described at > https://gnunet.org/vfork ? Before writing this, I looked around for > existing information on vfork, but I didn't find anyone making a good > argument (or even the claim) that relying on 'suspend-the-parent' was > per-se buggy. (Naturally, the result would be non-portable for systems > where fork==vfork, but then maybe implementing vfork as fork is the bug? > ;-)) > > Happy hacking > > Christian >
