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[RFA] Use vfork in shell_escape
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: fnasser at redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:52:05 -0400
- Subject: [RFA] Use vfork in shell_escape
This patch is pretty obvious. I couldn't figure out why my machine was
running out of memory; forking GDB to run an 'ls' during the maint.exp tests
can be a bit heavy, since it may have all of glibc's debug info loaded.
This patch seems logical to me... OK to commit?
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
2002-10-21 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
* cli/cli-cmds.c (shell_escape): Use vfork.
Index: cli/cli-cmds.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -p -r1.22 cli-cmds.c
--- cli/cli-cmds.c 22 Sep 2002 22:18:41 -0000 1.22
+++ cli/cli-cmds.c 22 Oct 2002 01:47:15 -0000
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ shell_escape (char *arg, int from_tty)
else
p++; /* Get past '/' */
- if ((pid = fork ()) == 0)
+ if ((pid = vfork ()) == 0)
{
if (!arg)
execl (user_shell, p, 0);