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Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:38:03 +0200

> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:22:48 -0800
> 
> The quick and dirty fix for Fdo_auto_save is to run
> Fdo_auto_save in a forked child

Forking a child from a damaged parent is likely to leave us with the
same problem in the child.  Also, if the original session uses up a
lot of memory, the fork could simply fail.  (You later suggested a
vfork + exec, but that doesn't allow auto-saving from the child,
AFAIU.)



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