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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2005-09-13 18:41:48 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2005-09-13 18:41:48 +0000
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(__spawni): Automatically recognize some more cases when we can use vfork.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/posix/spawni.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/spawni.c b/sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
index 69106c4..27699f4 100644
--- a/sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
+++ b/sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Guts of POSIX spawn interface. Generic POSIX.1 version.
- Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -81,7 +81,15 @@ __spawni (pid_t *pid, const char *file,
short int flags = attrp == NULL ? 0 : attrp->__flags;
/* Generate the new process. */
- if (flags & POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK)
+ if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK) != 0
+ /* If no major work is done, allow using vfork. Note that we
+ might perform the path searching. But this would be done by
+ a call to execvp(), too, and such a call must be OK according
+ to POSIX. */
+ || ((flags & (POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK | POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGDEF
+ | POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDPARAM | POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER
+ | POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP | POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS)) == 0
+ && file_actions == NULL))
new_pid = __vfork ();
else
new_pid = __fork ();