[uClibc]uclibc 0.9.11 vfork problem on powerpc

Ronald Wahl rwa at peppercon.com
Fri Jul 5 13:40:31 UTC 2002


On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:53:58 -0700, Huy Nguyen wrote:

> Hi,
> I recall someone once reported having problem with vfork on powerpc. I am
> seeing problem with both popen() and system(). Both vfork then exec. The
> program being execed seems OK but the caller gets the return after the exec
> and call exit(255). Is this a known problem? Switch to using fork() works
> OK..

I can reproduce this in 0.9.12 too. It would be nice if this would get
fixed. 

ron

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