On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 11:05:25PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Jul 15, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > Who is the culprit now? > > - Linux vfork implementation > > - vacation.c really should use fork instead of vfork > > - vacation.c closes too much files. It shouldn't do this when using > 2. vfork() is only permissible directly before an exec() call. Further investigation reveals that a 2.0 kernel has no problems. Looks like only the newer kernels implement a REAL vfork. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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