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-rw-r--r--miscutils/crontab.c8
-rw-r--r--miscutils/time.c4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
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. */