Re: GNUnet News: vfork and the signal race

2011-11-26 Thread Christian Grothoff
child, and the kill happens before the child execs (the problematic case you describe), then the child simply enters the hypervisor's signal handler, notices that it's not the hypervisor, and exits. Thomas On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Christian Grothoff mailto:christ...@grothoff.o

Re: GNUnet News: vfork and the signal race

2011-11-25 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 11/25/2011 07:50 PM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Programs which depend on the special suspend-the-parent behavior of vfork were always regarded as buggy... So relying on the well-documented behavior of a system call is a bug? Did you even read about the scenario I described at https://gnune