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Diffstat (limited to 'Src')
-rw-r--r-- | Src/exec.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Src/exec.c b/Src/exec.c index 9695011e3..3c13da476 100644 --- a/Src/exec.c +++ b/Src/exec.c @@ -239,6 +239,12 @@ zfork(struct timeval *tv) } if (tv) gettimeofday(tv, &dummy_tz); + /* + * Queueing signals is necessary on Linux because fork() + * manipulates mutexes, leading to deadlock in memory + * allocation. We don't expect fork() to be particularly + * zippy anyway. + */ queue_signals(); pid = fork(); unqueue_signals(); |