Re: kern/49017: vfork does not suspend all threads

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR kern/49017; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
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Subject: Re: kern/49017: vfork does not suspend all threads
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 16:26:04 -0400

 On Apr 5,  7:20pm, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/49017: vfork does not suspend all threads
 
 |  Using vfork() in a program with multiple active threads is madness,
 |  posix_spawn() is the only sensible way.
 
 Why is that? We allow it, so it should do something reasonable/useful...
 Or we should not allow it...
 
 christos