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authorKurt Miller <kurt@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-04-04 19:30:42 +0000
committerKurt Miller <kurt@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-04-04 19:30:42 +0000
commit2419060533a4e33e9985400be7adb6ab4ce3263b (patch)
tree7a2a9df18a429efb139fadf314d6b2368bde2e4e /lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
parenta56291bdcb56c4ec3dbbb489004badcd40f4c656 (diff)
- do not call pthread_atfork(3) handlers when a multithreaded program
calls vfork(2). "untested, but looks OK" marc@ - document vfork(2), popen(3) and system(3) don't call atfork handlers in multithreaded programs. okay jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/vfork.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/vfork.28
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2 b/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
index c1b4b6ec798..ec0e5a75639 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: vfork.2,v 1.15 2007/05/31 19:19:34 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: vfork.2,v 1.16 2008/04/04 19:30:41 kurt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: vfork.2,v 1.8 1997/07/10 07:54:13 mikel Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)vfork.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 4 2008 $
.Dt VFORK 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ in that the parent is suspended until the child makes a call to
or an exit (either by a call to
.Xr _exit 2
or abnormally).
+In addition, fork handlers established using
+.Xr pthread_atfork 3
+are not called when a multithreaded program calls
+.Fn vfork .
.Pp
.Fn vfork
returns 0 in the child's context and (later) the PID of the child in