Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> added the comment:
vfork() is more dangerous than fork() because the parent and child processes share memory (not copy-on-write, but really the same memory). Whether or not this affects posix_spawn depends on its implementation (to give a very vague statement). Glibc already uses vfork() in a number of cases, I'd expect that those are the cases where it is safe to use vfork() in the implementation of posix_spawn in the context of glibc. I'd therefore carefully test the use of vfork() in other cases to make sure those don't affect the parent process. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34663> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
