Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:29:15 -0800 | From | "Ulrich Drepper" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix sigaltstack corruption among cloned threads |
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On 3/13/06, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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