A parent process doesn't suspend even if the process traced by the strace command executes vfork
Issue
- When a target process which calls vfork is traced by strace command, the parent process does not suspend until child process calls _exit.
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This behavior does not match the following description in vfork(2):
vfork() differs from fork() in that the parent is suspended until the child makes a call to execve(2) or _exit(2).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
- strace
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