pty: Make forkpty() unsafe #1390
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After the child returns from a fork() of a multi-threaded process, it is undefined behaviour to call non-async-signal-safe functions according to POSIX. Since forkpty() is implemented in terms of fork(), those restrictions should apply to it too.
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After the child returns from a fork() of a multi-threaded process, it is
undefined behaviour to call non-async-signal-safe functions according to
POSIX. Since forkpty() is implemented in terms of fork(), those
restrictions should apply to it too.
Fixes #1388