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Re: fork vs __fork in threads (PR libc/1273)

To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: fork vs __fork in threads (PR libc/1273)
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Date: 03 Sep 1999 07:55:49 -0700
Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com
References: <jeu2pc19ox.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> I think we need __libc_fork, but for vfork this is impossible to fix,
> because we cannot use a wrapper.

We can simply avoid using vfork in MT programs by using the old vfork
implementation in libpthread.

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