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authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2013-02-03 17:09:47 -0500
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2013-02-03 17:09:47 -0500
commit4862864fc1a6d162b297db09c216b136db83d7dd (patch)
treee7005707af3b8b89eb827423c6d02c154f86c0b7
parentoverhaul posix_spawn to use CLONE_VM instead of vfork (diff)
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fix unsigned comparison bug in posix_spawn
read should never return anything but 0 or sizeof ec here, but if it does, we want to treat any other return as "success". then the caller will get back the pid and is responsible for waiting on it when it immediately exits.
-rw-r--r--src/process/posix_spawn.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/process/posix_spawn.c b/src/process/posix_spawn.c
index c55907d3..dd450129 100644
--- a/src/process/posix_spawn.c
+++ b/src/process/posix_spawn.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ int __posix_spawnx(pid_t *restrict res, const char *restrict path,
close(args.p[1]);
if (pid > 0) {
- if (read(args.p[0], &ec, sizeof ec) < sizeof ec) ec = 0;
+ if (read(args.p[0], &ec, sizeof ec) != sizeof ec) ec = 0;
else waitpid(pid, &(int){0}, 0);
} else {
ec = -pid;