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-rw-r--r--archival/libunarchive/open_transformer.c4
-rw-r--r--archival/tar.c4
-rw-r--r--debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c4
-rw-r--r--include/libbb.h2
-rw-r--r--libbb/Kbuild1
-rw-r--r--libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c4
-rw-r--r--miscutils/crontab.c8
-rw-r--r--miscutils/time.c4
-rw-r--r--networking/ifupdown.c7
-rw-r--r--networking/sendmail.c11
-rw-r--r--shell/hush.c6
-rw-r--r--util-linux/script.c5
12 files changed, 18 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/archival/libunarchive/open_transformer.c b/archival/libunarchive/open_transformer.c
index a6bc62321..16ca6a59c 100644
--- a/archival/libunarchive/open_transformer.c
+++ b/archival/libunarchive/open_transformer.c
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ int FAST_FUNC open_transformer(int src_fd,
if (pid == -1)
bb_perror_msg_and_die("can't fork");
#else
- pid = vfork();
- if (pid == -1)
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("can't vfork");
+ pid = xvfork();
#endif
if (pid == 0) {
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index 526edb69d..17ac6c55a 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -536,9 +536,7 @@ static void NOINLINE vfork_compressor(int tar_fd, int gzip)
(void) &zip_exec;
#endif
- gzipPid = vfork();
- if (gzipPid < 0)
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("can't vfork");
+ gzipPid = xvfork();
if (gzipPid == 0) {
/* child */
diff --git a/debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c b/debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c
index 459fb77e0..f10572ddf 100644
--- a/debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c
+++ b/debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c
@@ -404,9 +404,7 @@ int start_stop_daemon_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
/* DAEMON_DEVNULL_STDIO is superfluous -
* it's always done by bb_daemonize() */
#else
- pid_t pid = vfork();
- if (pid < 0) /* error */
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("vfork");
+ pid_t pid = xvfork();
if (pid != 0) {
/* parent */
/* why _exit? the child may have changed the stack,
diff --git a/include/libbb.h b/include/libbb.h
index 54601f87b..33e465cf4 100644
--- a/include/libbb.h
+++ b/include/libbb.h
@@ -719,6 +719,8 @@ int bb_execvp(const char *file, char *const argv[]) FAST_FUNC;
#define BB_EXECLP(prog,cmd,...) execlp(prog,cmd, __VA_ARGS__)
#endif
+pid_t xvfork(void) FAST_FUNC;
+
/* NOMMU friendy fork+exec */
pid_t spawn(char **argv) FAST_FUNC;
pid_t xspawn(char **argv) FAST_FUNC;
diff --git a/libbb/Kbuild b/libbb/Kbuild
index 5cbecd537..5ace87cad 100644
--- a/libbb/Kbuild
+++ b/libbb/Kbuild
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ lib-y += xfunc_die.o
lib-y += xgetcwd.o
lib-y += xgethostbyname.o
lib-y += xreadlink.o
+lib-y += xvfork.o
# conditionally compiled objects:
lib-$(CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP) += loop.o
diff --git a/libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c b/libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c
index 37d4c274e..9baa813a1 100644
--- a/libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c
+++ b/libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c
@@ -226,9 +226,7 @@ void FAST_FUNC forkexit_or_rexec(char **argv)
if (re_execed)
return;
- pid = vfork();
- if (pid < 0) /* wtf? */
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("vfork");
+ pid = xvfork();
if (pid) /* parent */
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
/* child - re-exec ourself */
diff --git a/miscutils/crontab.c b/miscutils/crontab.c
index dc3179dac..4bba9fb44 100644
--- a/miscutils/crontab.c
+++ b/miscutils/crontab.c
@@ -38,10 +38,8 @@ static void change_user(const struct passwd *pas)
static void edit_file(const struct passwd *pas, const char *file)
{
const char *ptr;
- int pid = vfork();
+ int pid = xvfork();
- if (pid < 0) /* failure */
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("vfork");
if (pid) { /* parent */
wait4pid(pid);
return;
@@ -65,9 +63,7 @@ static int open_as_user(const struct passwd *pas, const char *file)
pid_t pid;
char c;
- pid = vfork();
- if (pid < 0) /* ERROR */
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("vfork");
+ pid = xvfork();
if (pid) { /* PARENT */
if (wait4pid(pid) == 0) {
/* exitcode 0: child says it can read */
diff --git a/miscutils/time.c b/miscutils/time.c
index a6d158c53..104548c23 100644
--- a/miscutils/time.c
+++ b/miscutils/time.c
@@ -372,9 +372,7 @@ static void run_command(char *const *cmd, resource_t *resp)
void (*quit_signal)(int);
resp->elapsed_ms = monotonic_us() / 1000;
- pid = vfork(); /* Run CMD as child process. */
- if (pid < 0)
- bb_error_msg_and_die("cannot fork");
+ pid = xvfork(); /* Run CMD as child process. */
if (pid == 0) { /* If child. */
/* Don't cast execvp arguments; that causes errors on some systems,
versus merely warnings if the cast is left off. */
diff --git a/networking/ifupdown.c b/networking/ifupdown.c
index c12391863..8caff3f4d 100644
--- a/networking/ifupdown.c
+++ b/networking/ifupdown.c
@@ -1008,12 +1008,9 @@ static int popen2(FILE **in, FILE **out, char *command, char *param)
xpiped_pair(outfd);
fflush(NULL);
- pid = vfork();
+ pid = xvfork();
- switch (pid) {
- case -1: /* failure */
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("vfork");
- case 0: /* child */
+ if (pid == 0) { /* child */
/* NB: close _first_, then move fds! */
close(infd.wr);
close(outfd.rd);
diff --git a/networking/sendmail.c b/networking/sendmail.c
index 1c23ca290..c195cc021 100644
--- a/networking/sendmail.c
+++ b/networking/sendmail.c
@@ -120,15 +120,6 @@ static void signal_handler(int signo)
#undef err
}
-/* libbb candidate */
-static pid_t vfork_or_die(void)
-{
- pid_t pid = vfork();
- if (pid < 0)
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("vfork");
- return pid;
-}
-
static void launch_helper(const char **argv)
{
// setup vanilla unidirectional pipes interchange
@@ -137,7 +128,7 @@ static void launch_helper(const char **argv)
xpipe(pipes);
xpipe(pipes+2);
- helper_pid = vfork_or_die();
+ helper_pid = xvfork();
idx = (!helper_pid) * 2;
xdup2(pipes[idx], STDIN_FILENO);
xdup2(pipes[3-idx], STDOUT_FILENO);
diff --git a/shell/hush.c b/shell/hush.c
index 72186f970..59d8f3f99 100644
--- a/shell/hush.c
+++ b/shell/hush.c
@@ -3096,9 +3096,11 @@ static FILE *generate_stream_from_list(struct pipe *head)
* huge=`cat TESTFILE` # will block here forever
* echo OK
*/
- pid = BB_MMU ? fork() : vfork();
+ pid = BB_MMU ? fork() : xvfork();
+#if BB_MMU
if (pid < 0)
- bb_perror_msg_and_die(BB_MMU ? "fork" : "vfork");
+ bb_perror_msg_and_die("fork");
+#endif
if (pid == 0) { /* child */
if (ENABLE_HUSH_JOB)
die_sleep = 0; /* let nofork's xfuncs die */
diff --git a/util-linux/script.c b/util-linux/script.c
index e70294e6c..a6c1ab88a 100644
--- a/util-linux/script.c
+++ b/util-linux/script.c
@@ -87,10 +87,7 @@ int script_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
/* TODO: SIGWINCH? pass window size changes down to slave? */
- child_pid = vfork();
- if (child_pid < 0) {
- bb_perror_msg_and_die("vfork");
- }
+ child_pid = xvfork();
if (child_pid) {
/* parent */
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