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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/posix/spawni.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/spawni.c b/sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
index f65a095..69106c4 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) 2000,01,02, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 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
@@ -76,10 +76,16 @@ __spawni (pid_t *pid, const char *file,
char *path, *p, *name;
size_t len;
size_t pathlen;
- short int flags;
+
+ /* Do this once. */
+ short int flags = attrp == NULL ? 0 : attrp->__flags;
/* Generate the new process. */
- new_pid = __fork ();
+ if (flags & POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK)
+ new_pid = __vfork ();
+ else
+ new_pid = __fork ();
+
if (new_pid != 0)
{
if (new_pid < 0)
@@ -92,9 +98,6 @@ __spawni (pid_t *pid, const char *file,
return 0;
}
- /* Do this once. */
- flags = attrp == NULL ? 0 : attrp->__flags;
-
/* Set signal mask. */
if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK) != 0
&& __sigprocmask (SIG_SETMASK, &attrp->__ss, NULL) != 0)