[PATCH] dropbear-051: uClinux vfork

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 23 October 2008, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> execvp() is ok, even though that
> calls malloc() (in at least one Glibc version I looked at).

yes, most of the exec calls need memory in order to construct an argv[] based 
on the function arguments.  in glibc, i imagine that the memory leaked is 
permanently lost (although ive never looked at the glibc implementation).  in 
uClibc we minimize the leakage by re-using it in the next call to exec that 
needs memory.

thanks for the other tidbits
-mike
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