Don't return but _exit after failed exec*() and fork()

Quoting POSIX[0]:
"Care should be taken, also, to call _exit() rather than exit() if exec cannot be used, since
exit() flushes and closes standard I/O channels, thereby damaging the parent process' standard
I/O data structures. (Even with fork(), it is wrong to call exit(), since buffered data would
then be flushed twice.)"

[0]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/vfork.html
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FRIGN
2015-03-09 01:04:34 +01:00
parent 4414a17e1b
commit 6f207dac5f
8 changed files with 30 additions and 22 deletions

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@@ -168,13 +168,15 @@ spawn(void)
int savederrno;
pid = fork();
if (pid < 0)
eprintf("fork:");
if (pid < 0) {
weprintf("fork:");
_exit(1);
}
if (pid == 0) {
execvp(*cmd, cmd);
savederrno = errno;
weprintf("execvp %s:", *cmd);
_exit(savederrno == ENOENT ? 127 : 126);
_exit(126 + (savederrno == ENOENT));
}
waitchld();
}