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-rw-r--r--regress/reexec.sh5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/regress/reexec.sh b/regress/reexec.sh
index 2192456c..8966ba52 100644
--- a/regress/reexec.sh
+++ b/regress/reexec.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ SSHD_COPY=$OBJ/sshd
# Start a sshd and then delete it
start_sshd_copy ()
{
- cp $SSHD_ORIG $SSHD_COPY
+ # NB. prefer ln to cp here. On some OSX 19.4 configurations,
+ # djm has seen failure after fork() when the executable image
+ # has been removed from the filesystem.
+ ln $SSHD_ORIG $SSHD_COPY || cp $SSHD_ORIG $SSHD_COPY
SSHD=$SSHD_COPY
start_sshd
SSHD=$SSHD_ORIG