Re: PATCH RFA: Use new pexecute routines in collect2

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>]

"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> > This patch changes collect2.c to use the new pexecute routines which I
> > recently checked in.  This should be the long-awaited fix to PR
> > bootstrap/14316 in mainline.
> 
> I think this patch should also fix a bootstrap failure on hppa2.0w-hpux 
> which appeared today with the previous pexecute changes.  (collect2 was 
> failing to interpret nm's exit status properly, producing errors like
> 
> collect2: /usr/ccs/bin/nm terminated with signal 96 [], core dumped
> 
> and it looked to me like the problem could be nm being invoked with vfork 
> and pwait being called with a pid from vfork which was no longer suitable 
> for pwait, which now expects pexecute's internal pids instead.)

Very likely.  I hadn't noticed that collect2 assumed that pexecute and
vfork returned comparable PID numbers.

Ian