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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-11-09T17·00+0100 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-11-09T17·00+0100 |
| commit | ea89df2b76811505239b508a570ac9c0ea591038 (patch) | |
| tree | 7b11ea7186ad2b73bf12ebb2e51e7238a052db85 /src/libutil/util.hh | |
| parent | 48c19c4633b1443015531ee3032b16b29b0a92f9 (diff) | |
Use vfork() instead of fork() if available
Hopefully this reduces the chance of hitting ‘unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory’ errors. vfork() is used for everything except starting builders.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil/util.hh')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libutil/util.hh | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh index 0e121ea5c6..90413b0efe 100644 --- a/src/libutil/util.hh +++ b/src/libutil/util.hh @@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ void closeOnExec(int fd); sanitize file handles 0, 1 and 2. */ void setuidCleanup(); +/* Call vfork() if available, otherwise fork(). */ +extern pid_t (*maybeVfork)(); + /* User interruption. */ |