Re: [patch] fix building on nommu systems (no fork)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> one of the tests (ditto) uses fork() when it could just as easily use vfork --

it could (with a configure-check...)

> it simply does an exec, and it already uses _exit
>
> --- a/test/ditto.c
> +++ b/test/ditto.c
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ open_tty(char *path)
>         failed(slave_name);
>     }
>     sprintf(s_option, "-S%s/%d", slave_name, aslave);
> -    if (fork()) {
> +    if (vfork() == 0) {
>         execlp("xterm", "xterm", s_option, "-title", path, (char *) 0);
>         _exit(0);
>     }
> -mike

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