On 10/14, Christian Brauner wrote: > > The child helper process on Linux posix_spawn must ensure that no signal > handlers are enabled, so the signal disposition must be either SIG_DFL > or SIG_IGN. However, it requires a sigprocmask to obtain the current > signal mask and at least _NSIG sigaction calls to reset the signal > handlers for each posix_spawn call Plus the caller has to block/unblock all signals around clone(VM|VFORK). Can this justify the new CLONE_ flag? Honestly, I have no idea. But the patch is simple and looks technically correct to me. FWIW, Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>