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Message-ID: <87k092eem6.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:42:57 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: Nick Peng <pymumu@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: BUG: Calling readdir/dirfd after vfork will cause deadlock.

* Szabolcs Nagy:

> * Nick Peng <pymumu@...il.com> [2022-06-25 11:40:17 +0800]:
>> Description:  After vfork, calling functions such as readdir/dirfd may
>> cause deadlock. GNU C is OK.
>
> why do you think "GNU C is OK"? is this from some real software?

glibc supports opendir/readdir/closedir after vfork as an extension.
The JVM depends on it.

Of course it's undefined, but I really see no way around keeping support
for it for the time being.

Thanks,
Florian

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