> So in theory its doable in glibc if anyone is feeling extremely clever
I don't think this is a good idea at all. There are too many programs
out there which are written incorrectly if vfork is defined this way.
You would break them just to allow a few other programs which are
_known_ and where the author is crazy enough to use this horrible
feature.
It would be much better to rewrite the function relying on the vfork
behaviour to use a thread for this. It's much cleaner and protable.
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