From f57ecacf0ea6504be40bc1e14853effe5cc489f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: epg <>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:23:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Yikes.  run_processor was having the child return back to
 main if exec fails.  Fix that, and switch to vfork.

---
 mdeliver.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mdeliver.c b/mdeliver.c
index 3c8acf8..1b741e1 100644
--- a/mdeliver.c
+++ b/mdeliver.c
@@ -276,18 +276,18 @@ run_processor(char *home, char *newfn)
     int olderrno;
     int fd;
 
-    if ((pid = fork()) > 0) {
+    if ((pid = vfork()) > 0) {
         return;
     } else if (pid == 0) {
         snprintf(command, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s", home, ".mdeliver-processor");
         execl(command, command, newfn, NULL);
         if (errno == ENOENT) {
             /* Not having a processor is not an error. */
-            return;
+            _exit(0);
         }
         fail = "exec";
     } else {
-        fail = "fork";
+        fail = "vfork";
     }
     olderrno = errno;
 
@@ -306,6 +306,8 @@ run_processor(char *home, char *newfn)
         fsync(fd);
         close(fd);
     }
+
+    _exit(0);
 }
 
 int
-- 
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