Change vfork() to posix_spawn()?

[Ivan Voras]

On 14/09/2012 09:49, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
> Hello hackers,
> 
> I'm looking through the Clang Analyzer scans on http://scan.freebsd.your.org/freebsd-head looking for false positives to report back to LLVM. There are quite a list of reports suggesting to change vfork() calls to posix_spawn(). Example from /bin/rpc: http://scan.freebsd.your.org/freebsd-head/bin.rcp/2012-09-12-amd64/report-nsOV80.html#EndPath
> 
> I know nothing about this but I can see fork and posix_spawn have been discussed on this list previously. Is this a legitimate warning (in this case and in general in FreeBSD base)?

Currently (on 9-stable at least), posix_spawn() is implemented as a
wrapper around vfork(), so I doubt replacing one with the other would do
much.

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