HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 2 System Calls (vol 5)

vfork(2) vfork(2)

function, for example), it is likely that the parent and child processes will be killed with signal

SIG-

SEGV

or SIGBUS.

In the [vfork,exec] window, a call to

signal() (see signal(2) that installs a catching function can

affect handling of the signal by the parent. The parent is not affected if the handling is being set to

SIG_DFL or SIG_IGN, or if either sigaction()

or sigvector() is used (see sigaction(2) and

sigvector (2)).

AUTHOR

vfork() was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.