Rich Felker suggested removing dprintf() from watch, and one thing led to

another... This adds bb_xspawn() support, which does vfork/exec.  (I don't
know why using a static instead of a local adds ~40 bytes, but using
the local doesn't work...)
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Rob Landley
2006-05-25 23:02:40 +00:00
parent 69d863b6c6
commit 399d2b5c24
3 changed files with 58 additions and 62 deletions

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@@ -182,3 +182,37 @@ void bb_xfflush_stdout(void)
}
}
#endif
#ifdef L_spawn
// This does a fork/exec in one call, using vfork().
pid_t bb_spawn(char **argv)
{
static int failed;
pid_t pid;
// Be nice to nommu machines.
failed = 0;
pid = vfork();
if (pid < 0) return pid;
if (!pid) {
execvp(*argv, argv);
// We're sharing a stack with blocked parent, let parent know we failed
// and then exit to unblock parent (but don't run atexit() stuff, which
// would screw up parent.)
failed = -1;
_exit(0);
}
return failed ? failed : pid;
}
#endif
#ifdef L_xspawn
pid_t bb_xspawn(char **argv)
{
pid_t pid = bb_spawn(argv);
if (pid < 0) bb_perror_msg_and_die("%s", *argv);
return pid;
}
#endif