[PATCH] dropbear-051: uClinux vfork

[Jamie Lokier]

Farrell Aultman wrote:
> Between dropbear-047 and dropbear-051 changes were made that
> accounted for the fact that uClinux needs to use vfork instead of
> fork.  However, fork was not replaced with vfork in all places.  I
> moved the conditional preproccessor check for uClinux into the
> includes.h file, so that fork is always replaced with vfork in all
> of the dropbear code when compiling for uClinux.  A side effect is
> that the code is cleaner since you just call fork without wrapping
> it every time with a conditional preprocessor check.

Have you checked that it's safe to call vfork in all those places?

vfork is not always a safe replacement for fork, even on uClinux where
fork doesn't work.

-- Jamie