* John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011218 18:41] wrote: > > Actually, it's a bit worse than that. The parent process will sleep on itself > waiting to be woken up, but when the child exits, it will wake up init > (p->p_pptr) not the waiting process, so if you do a rfork(..., RFNOWAIT | > RFPPWAIT); then the parent process will hang and never return. > > Perhaps fork1() should return EINVAL if both flags are set. >
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