From 7465dbcf2a4c0a0983d40e5c0f5c057d2ed04125 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis Vlasenko Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:25:53 +0000 Subject: ash: speed up NOFORK code in ash by eliminating second find_applet(). some code reduction along the way. function old new delta run_list 1971 1981 +10 run_nofork_applet_prime 181 182 +1 unsetcmd 97 96 -1 delete_cmd_entry 54 53 -1 describe_command 399 397 -2 cmdlookup 152 150 -2 evaltreenr 602 599 -3 evaltree 602 599 -3 clearcmdentry 101 98 -3 cdcmd 675 672 -3 hashcmd 305 301 -4 find_command 933 910 -23 evalcommand 1371 1229 -142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/11 up/down: 11/-187) Total: -176 bytes --- libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'libbb') diff --git a/libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c b/libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c index 1567d89be..2c4c930b2 100644 --- a/libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c +++ b/libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c @@ -146,6 +146,15 @@ int run_nofork_applet_prime(struct nofork_save_area *old, int applet_no, char ** memcpy(tmp_argv, argv, (argc+1) * sizeof(tmp_argv[0])); /* Finally we can call NOFORK applet's main() */ rc = applet_main[applet_no](argc, tmp_argv); + + /* The whole reason behind nofork_save_area is that _main + * may exit non-locally! For example, in hush Ctrl-Z tries to + * (modulo bugs) to dynamically create child (backgrounded task) + * if it detects that Ctrl-Z was pressed when a NOFORK was running! + * Testcase: interactive "rm -i". + * Don't fool yourself into thinking "and _main() returns + * quickly here" and removing "useless" nofork_save_area code. */ + } else { /* xfunc died in NOFORK applet */ /* in case they meant to return 0... */ if (rc == -2222) @@ -154,7 +163,7 @@ int run_nofork_applet_prime(struct nofork_save_area *old, int applet_no, char ** /* Restoring globals */ restore_nofork_data(old); - return rc; + return rc & 0xff; /* don't confuse people with "exitcodes" >255 */ } int run_nofork_applet(int applet_no, char **argv) -- cgit v1.2.3