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process: Don't use vfork() on Apple platforms.

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They want you to use fork(), which is almost-identical in their implementation.
They mark vfork() usage with a big scary deprecation warning.
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Ryan C. Gordon
2025-01-20 15:51:02 -05:00
parent 819628c6bf
commit adb91fd3db
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src/process/posix/SDL_posixprocess.c
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@@ -309,10 +309,16 @@ bool SDL_SYS_CreateProcessWithProperties(SDL_Process *process, SDL_PropertiesID
// Spawn the new process
if (process->background) {
int status = -1;
pid_t pid = vfork();
#ifdef SDL_PLATFORM_APPLE // Apple has vfork marked as deprecated and (as of macOS 10.12) is almost identical to calling fork() anyhow.
const pid_t pid = fork();
const char *forkname = "fork";
#else
const pid_t pid = vfork();
const char *forkname = "vfork";
#endif
switch (pid) {
case -1:
SDL_SetError("vfork() failed: %s", strerror(errno));
SDL_SetError("%s() failed: %s", forkname, strerror(errno));
goto posix_spawn_fail_all;
case 0: