Re: [PATCH] Fix sigaltstack corruption among cloned threads

[Ulrich Drepper]

On 3/13/06, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Because vfork also sets CLONE_VM and vfork isn't supposed to reset
> alternate stack setting.

I'd say this is rather an oversight than a real requirement (we fixed
quite a few such problems in the POSIX spec of vfork) but it should be
as safe as any other solution.  So, I'm OK with the extended CLONE_VM
test.
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