Well the wrap of vfork() calls didn't work: its semantics don't allow that. So...

[mmh] / uip / whatnowsbr.c

diff --git a/uip/whatnowsbr.c b/uip/whatnowsbr.c
index 85c50b3..36ba346 100644 (file)
--- a/uip/whatnowsbr.c
+++ b/uip/whatnowsbr.c
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ editfile (char **ed, char **arg, char *file, int use, struct msgs *mp,
     context_save ();   /* save the context file */
     fflush (stdout);
 
-    switch (pid = m_vfork()) {
+    switch (pid = vfork()) {
        case NOTOK:
            advise ("fork", "unable to");
            status = NOTOK;
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ sendfile (char **arg, char *file, int pushsw)
     context_save ();   /* save the context file */
     fflush (stdout);
 
-    for (i = 0; (child_id = m_vfork()) == NOTOK && i < 5; i++)
+    for (i = 0; (child_id = vfork()) == NOTOK && i < 5; i++)
        sleep (5);
     switch (child_id) {
        case NOTOK:
@@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ whomfile (char **arg, char *file)
     context_save ();   /* save the context file */
     fflush (stdout);
 
-    switch (pid = m_vfork()) {
+    switch (pid = vfork()) {
        case NOTOK:
            advise ("fork", "unable to");
            return 1;