On Monday 02 March 2009 09:57:14 Michael Schnell wrote: > > Yeah that would certainly be undesired. I figure the exec should happen > > as soon as possible after the vfork. > > Usually exec() in fact is the next C-line after vfork(), so there would > be no time(slice) to execute anything else in between, anyway.
there's always a timeslice, even in functions you call in the C library :) people forget this and we get race conditions ! (not that that really is relevant to this discussion ...) -mike _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
