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authorGravatar sin <sin@2f30.org>2014-11-11 18:29:11 +0000
committerGravatar Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga@shike2.com>2014-11-19 18:52:42 +0100
commit4418939dd9f3a7b3cfd3071234ed18ae86538f2a (patch)
tree69d883225303d156e0afcacd96b12612d55d57c8
parentbafbba56cd5735c680676db2adf6f614ba61356f (diff)
Call _exit() instead of exit() if exec*() fails
exit() will also unwind the atexit() functions. This is bad because if exec*() fails the process is in an inconsistent state.
-rw-r--r--st.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index 068fbb3..4499be6 100644
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ execsh(void) {
signal(SIGALRM, SIG_DFL);
execvp(prog, args);
- exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
void