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| author | Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> | 2001-04-08 18:26:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> | 2001-04-08 18:26:03 +0000 |
| commit | c69803a1e2b94371297debdb6cb30d5d8ba921ca (patch) | |
| tree | cfe18fa54ffdc25c0b2fa31842ab867fa25e85ea /gdb/ser-pipe.c | |
| parent | 548b319096bfd9a815d821e018feecec4919ed4b (diff) | |
| download | gdb-c69803a1e2b94371297debdb6cb30d5d8ba921ca.tar.gz | |
Add comments noting that vfork might be defined to be fork.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/ser-pipe.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ser-pipe.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ser-pipe.c b/gdb/ser-pipe.c index 652d7743afa..3e232872301 100644 --- a/gdb/ser-pipe.c +++ b/gdb/ser-pipe.c @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ pipe_open (serial_t scb, const char *name) if (socketpair (AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, pdes) < 0) return -1; + /* Create the child process to run the command in. Note that the + apparent call to vfork() below *might* actually be a call to + fork() due to the fact that autoconf will ``#define vfork fork'' + on certain platforms. */ pid = vfork (); /* Error. */ |