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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-11-09 18:00:33 +0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-11-09 18:00:33 +0100
commitea89df2b76811505239b508a570ac9c0ea591038 (patch)
tree7b11ea7186ad2b73bf12ebb2e51e7238a052db85 /configure.ac
parent48c19c4633b1443015531ee3032b16b29b0a92f9 (diff)
Use vfork() instead of fork() if available
Hopefully this reduces the chance of hitting ‘unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory’ errors. vfork() is used for everything except starting builders.
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7333e03c0..0eb7d7632 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/mount.h], [], [],
])
+# Check for vfork.
+AC_FUNC_FORK()
+
+
# Check for lutimes, optionally used for changing the mtime of
# symlinks.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([lutimes])