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From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-30 12:26:31


On May 29, 2008, at 2:50 PM, K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

> This patch fixes bjam hangs on Leopard, as reported by Rene. The
> problem is with vfork. On the Mac, the documentation is quite clear
> that vfork will suspend the calling process until an execve occurs.
> The problem is execunix.c uses execvp after vfork and this hangs bjam
> under both Leopard and Tiger on PPC hardware.

Committed, revision 45956.

-- Noel


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