Re: Can't get ezmlm-idx to work, unable to exec qq. Need help

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:25:18 -0600

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:15:07PM -0600, Steve Fatula wrote:
> There was discussion on this in the qmail mailing list, separately. Seems 
> to be some sort of weird interaction between vfork, a non absolute file 
> path,  execv, and set user id! Other variations seem to work.
>
> So, the simple patch is to replace vfork with fork.

This is very strange.  However, I see no reason not to completely drop
the use of vfork as an anachronism that is no longer necessary or even
useful.  Unless I see compelling evidence otherwise, future versions of
ezmlm-idx (and there will be) will drop the use of vfork.

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Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>                http://untroubled.org/
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