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Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes: |> Andreas Schwab wrote: |> |> > Shouldn't that be moved outside of #ifdef __NR_vfork, so that __fork is |> > used even if compiling with kernel headers that do not define vfork? The |> > minimum for i386 is still 2.0.10. |> |> No. If somebody calls vfork instead of fork the atfork handlers are not |> called. But when glibc knows about the real vfork then __fork is called even when running on a kernel without vfork. That makes it quite inconsistent. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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