X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/e8e776aac3bde7ce4b4c7512b3f6bb53baf62e1f..42ba812b705cec0ebef0fb65bb72d27a1378b316:/src/unix/utilsunx.cpp

diff --git a/src/unix/utilsunx.cpp b/src/unix/utilsunx.cpp
index 6ff5e30984..4cb88a61b9 100644
--- a/src/unix/utilsunx.cpp
+++ b/src/unix/utilsunx.cpp
@@ -563,13 +563,17 @@ long wxExecute(wxChar **argv,
     }
 
     // fork the process
-#ifdef HAVE_VFORK
-    pid_t pid = vfork();
+    //
+    // NB: do *not* use vfork() here, it completely breaks this code for some
+    //     reason under Solaris (and maybe others, although not under Linux)
+    //     But on OpenVMS we do not have fork so we have to use vfork and
+    //     cross our fingers that it works.
+#ifdef __VMS
+   pid_t pid = vfork();
 #else
-    pid_t pid = fork();
+   pid_t pid = fork();
 #endif
-
-    if ( pid == -1 )     // error?
+   if ( pid == -1 )     // error?
     {
         wxLogSysError( _("Fork failed") );