Florian, On 10/20/18 11:35 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Olivier Gayot: > >> As a consequence, the statements regarding the use of the flag >> POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK and how the function decides whether it should use >> fork (2) or vfork (2) are obsolete since glibc 2.24. > > Maybe we should add that it is always never correct to use > POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK? > > Either you are on a glibc which ignores it, then it is pointless, or > on a glibc which has buggy semantics when vfork is used, so you > probably do not want to use it. Could you formulate a sentence for me that I could drop into the current manual page? Are there any bug reports about the older buggy semantics that I can add as part of a commit message? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
