[issue34663] Support POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK flag in posix_spawn
Florian Weimer
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Wed Sep 19 10:15:37 EDT 2018
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> added the comment:
I wouldn't bother with POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK on GNU/Linux. Current versions of glibc always use a vfork-style clone call, so there would be a difference on older versions only. But there, the vfork code has subtle bugs, so using POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK there is not a good idea, either.
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nosy: +fweimer
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