There are two types of stack unwinding that can happen on Unix systems:
C++ exceptions and PThread cancellations (on some systems, like Linux,
PThread cancellations can be caught in catch(...) statements). We call a
variety of PThread cancellation functions from inside the child stub,
like close(). To avoid problems, we disable PThread cancellations
completely before fork() or vfork().
The C++ exception case is simpler, because we can be sure of catching
them with the catch (...) statement and simply transform them into an
error message. This is also testable, which the PThread cancellation
isn't.
The error message isn't ideal because we're string-frozen. I'll improve
it for 6.6.
Pick-to: 6.5
Change-Id: Icfe44ecf285a480fafe4fffd174d97a475c93ff1
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@qt.io>
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