Christian Grothoff, le Sat 26 Nov 2011 01:09:59 +0100, a écrit :
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
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:35:29AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
(Naturally, the result would be non-portable for systems where fork==vfork,
but then maybe implementing vfork as fork is the bug? ;-))
It's what the norm says.
I think you meant the norm explicitely says vfork can be
Richard Braun, le Sat 26 Nov 2011 15:12:50 +0100, a écrit :
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:35:29AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
(Naturally, the result would be non-portable for systems where
fork==vfork,
but then maybe implementing vfork as fork is the bug? ;-))
It's what the norm
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 26 Nov 2011 15:14:11 +0100, a écrit :
Richard Braun, le Sat 26 Nov 2011 15:12:50 +0100, a écrit :
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:35:29AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
(Naturally, the result would be non-portable for systems where
fork==vfork,
but then maybe
Thank you Thomas for your suggestion. For our purposes, this is a
better (certainly more portable) solution that does always work.
Happy hacking,
Christian
On 11/26/2011 02:43 AM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Oh, and in the case you describe there:
The hypervisor at start creates a global
Hallo!
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:53:45 +0100, Christian Grothoff christ...@grothoff.org
wrote:
Thank you Thomas for your suggestion. For our purposes, this is a
better (certainly more portable) solution that does always work.
Great that Thomas Bushnell could help finding a yet-better solution
Hallo!
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:59:55 -, Planet GNU tschwinge+n...@gnu.org wrote:
Many articles uniformly claim that using vfork should be
[avoided][1] and that the only difference between vfork and fork is (or
used-to-be) [performance][2] and that thus vfork is [obsolte][3]. Here, I
wanted
Programs which depend on the special suspend-the-parent behavior of vfork
were always regarded as buggy...
Thomas
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Thomas Schwinge tho...@schwinge.namewrote:
Hallo!
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:59:55 -, Planet GNU tschwinge+n...@gnu.org
wrote:
Many articles
