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20 years ago

use of vfork() instead of fork() in uClinux

Hi all, I ported pppd from busybox on the Nios2. Actually, I just did two things : - add the -Wl,-elf2flt linker flags to convert the binary file - changed calls to fork() by vfork() ...
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20 years ago

You aren't supposed to change all of hte calls manually in the source code.. you can add a compile flag -Dfork=vfork ... or something like that (look at the compile for busybox). That will automatically change them for you. But it should be safe doing this, in most instances..