use vfork if possible in posix_spawn

vfork is implemented as the fork syscall (with no atfork handlers run)
on archs where it is not available, so this change does not introduce
any change in behavior or regression for such archs.

diff --git a/src/process/posix_spawn.c b/src/process/posix_spawn.c
index 1120be081e90c1f64a1a76cc645ec5095abf889a..604756e9f99239ac1ccf1b294d9270cd1263bd1f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/process/posix_spawn.c
+++ b/src/process/posix_spawn.c
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 
 extern char **environ;
 
+pid_t __vfork(void);
+
 int __posix_spawnx(pid_t *restrict res, const char *restrict path,
        int (*exec)(const char *, char *const *),
        const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *fa,
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ int __posix_spawnx(pid_t *restrict res, const char *restrict path,
        if (!attr) attr = &dummy_attr;
 
        sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, (void *)(uint64_t []){-1}, &oldmask);
-       pid = __syscall(SYS_fork);
+       pid = __vfork();
 
        if (pid) {
                sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oldmask, 0);