Re: vfork on Oracle Solaris 11.2

[Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>]

Hi,

From: "Sevan / Venture37" <venture37%gmail.com@localhost>, Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 23:06:24 +0100

> Hi Ryo,
> 
> On 30 May 2015 at 05:41, Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working on Oracle JRE/JDK 8u45 packages.
>> I would like to test these packages on Oracle Solaris 11.2,
>> but 11.2's vfork(2) is deprecated and I cannot compile
>> sysutils/bsdinstall during pkgsrc bootstrap.
>>
>> How to resolve my problem?
>> Should vfork be replaced by fork?
> 
> There's a blog post by Allan Coopersmith on what was removed and alternatives.
> https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc/entry/solaris_11_2_functional_deprecation
> Using SunStudio there's no issue with bootstrapping on Solaris (worryingly?).

I had read it already.
Using posix_spawn is bad choice, becasue we support
some older environments.

> Sevan / Venture37

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