Don't abuse vfork()

According to POSIX.1, "vfork() has the same effect as fork(2),
except that the behavior is undefined if the process created by vfork()
either modifies any data other than a variable of type pid_t
used to store the return value from vfork(), [...],
or calls any other function before successfully calling _exit(2)
or one of the exec(3) family of functions."

These do all three, and work by pure chance
(or maybe they don't, but we blisfully don't know).
Either way: bad idea to call vfork() from C,
unless you're the standard library, and POSIX.1-2008 removes it entirely

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <[email protected]>
Closes #12015

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