Re: Porting vfork()

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:33:00 -0500


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> You could make it a special kind of killable - where you can _only_
> kill it (ie only fatal signals will be serviced), and that would work.
> I wouldn't do that until people actually start to complain. It's not a
> security issue, as the parent _can_ be killed - you just have to kill
> the child first.

Somebody needs to think about: while(1){vfork();}

-- 
Raul

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