Re: [Xen-devel]xl create PV guest with qcow/qcow2 disk images fail

[David Vrabel <dvrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/11/11 09:14, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
> 2011/11/4 Chunyan Liu <cyliu@xxxxxxxx>:
>>> This needs to be libxl_fork, I think. Perhaps even this whole thing
>>> should be libxl__spawn_spawn (not sure about that)?
>>
>> I noticed that in libxl, some places use fork() and other places use
>> libxl_fork(), device-model uses libxl__spawn_spwan. As for this place, I am
>> not clear if fork() + execvp() might cause some problem? Or it is just
>> considered better to use libxl_fork or libxl__spawn_spwan?

vfork() no longer exists in the POSIX.1-2008 standard so you probably
should not use it.

David

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