Re: [Nmh-workers] Proposed solution to Debian Bug#143485

[Harald Geyer]

> >         execlp (mhlproc, mhl, "-form", filter, "-noclear", NULL);
> > -       fprintf (stderr, "unable to exec ");
> > -       perror (mhlproc);
> > +       write(2, "unable to exec ", 15);
> 
> Reminds me of Hollerith constants, i.e. having to manually count the
> length of a string literal.  Can't we just stick with the fprintf(),
> perror(), etc., and add judicious use of fflush()?

No. fflush() won't help since stderr should be unbuffered anyway. But the
vfork()ed child might still overwrite the parents data. Of course we 
could stick with fprintf() if we dropped vfork()...

Harald