Re: [REQUEST FOR VOTES] snmpd: Drop support for pass_persist on uClinux

On 2020-08-18 10:28, Magnus Fromreide wrote:
> I think the child code in the vfork case should be exactly
> 
>         execv(argv[0], argv);
>         _exit(1);
> 
> as that seems to be about what POSIX allows.
> 
>        (From  POSIX.1)  The  vfork()  function has the same effect as fork(2),
>        except that the behavior is undefined if the process created by vfork()
>        either
>          modifies  any  data other than a variable of type pid_t used to
>          store the return value from vfork(), or
> 
> 	 returns from  the  function  in which  vfork()  was called, or
> 
> 	 calls any other function before successfully calling _exit(2) or
> 	 one of the exec(3) family of functions.
> 
> Yes, vfork is quite limited.

Feel free to take a look at commit 8fabe044e316f9ecda53148d9afeaf5e5854bb1a.

Thanks,

Bart.