From: epg <>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:09:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (run_processor): r1901 was a little off; this should only _exit when
X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/mdeliver/commitdiff_plain/f05e512a112bc9236499eac55764fd4343434fc6

(run_processor): r1901 was a little off; this should only _exit when
the fork succeeded, and we cannot use vfork, as we need to write an
error message if the exec failed.
---

diff --git a/mdeliver.c b/mdeliver.c
index b615950..d6e49e7 100644
--- a/mdeliver.c
+++ b/mdeliver.c
@@ -267,10 +267,11 @@ run_processor(char *home, char *newfn)
     int olderrno;
     int fd;
 
-    if ((pid = vfork()) > 0) {
+    if ((pid = fork()) > 0) {
         return;
     } else if (pid == 0) {
-        snprintf(command, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s", home, ".mdeliver-processor");
+        snprintf(command, sizeof(command), "%s/%s",
+                 home, ".mdeliver-processor");
         execl(command, command, newfn, NULL);
         if (errno == ENOENT) {
             /* Not having a processor is not an error. */
@@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ run_processor(char *home, char *newfn)
         }
         fail = "exec";
     } else {
-        fail = "vfork";
+        fail = "fork";
     }
     olderrno = errno;
 
@@ -298,7 +299,9 @@ run_processor(char *home, char *newfn)
         close(fd);
     }
 
-    _exit(0);
+    if (fail[0] == 'e') {
+        _exit(0);
+    }
 }
 
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