Subject: Re: popen reentrant (was Re: SA/pthread and vfork)
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/11/2003 17:17:50 
> The sharing of address space is an
> optimization, not a communications mechanism.  Any applications that
> breaks is broken and needs to be fixed.

Are you going to 'fix' sh then?

I don't think you can assume that calls to vfork() can be silently replaced
by fork().

	David

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