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BADFUNC.FORK : Use of fork

Summary

A use of fork(), which must be used with care to avoid concurrency issues and accidental file descriptor inheritance.

Properties

Class Name Use of fork
Significance reliability
Mnemonic BADFUNC.FORK
Categories
CERT-C CERT-C:POS38-C Beware of race conditions when using fork and file descriptors
Availability Available for C and C++.
Enabling Checks for this warning class are disabled by default. To enable them, add the following WARNING_FILTER rule to the project configuration file.
WARNING_FILTER += allow class="Use of fork"

Resolution

Carefully consider the possible states of any other threads in the process at the time of the fork, the set of file descriptors that the child might inherit, and whether the parent/child coordinate future use of shared file descriptors.

Relevant Configuration File Parameters

This class is implemented using a BAD_FUNCTION_* rule set in the general template configuration file.

The following configuration file parameters affect checks for this warning class.