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| author |   kurt <kurt@openbsd.org> | 2008-04-04 19:30:41 +0000 |
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| committer | kurt <kurt@openbsd.org> | 2008-04-04 19:30:41 +0000 |
| commit | cb2f56c4c83cf20c371119e9a0fbf1e9781a0ce3 (patch) | |
| tree | 72be69d4579d6dc0c65f1bf43aed1881dc25fe03 /lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 | |
| parent | Zero out the password/response argument in the simplified BSD auth (diff) | |
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- do not call pthread_atfork(3) handlers when a multithreaded program
calls vfork(2). "untested, but looks OK" marc@
- document vfork(2), popen(3) and system(3) don't call atfork handlers
in multithreaded programs. okay jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/system.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 index 338d3bfa835..a49e595bc0a 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: system.3,v 1.10 2007/05/31 19:19:32 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: system.3,v 1.11 2008/04/04 19:30:41 kurt Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 4 2008 $ .Dt SYSTEM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ Otherwise, .Fn system returns the termination status of the shell in the format specified by .Xr waitpid 2 . +.Pp +Note that fork handlers established using +.Xr pthread_atfork 3 +are not called when a multithreaded program calls +.Fn system . .Sh RETURN VALUES If a child process cannot be created, or the termination status of the shell cannot be obtained, |