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Tuesday November 20, 2007
06:12 PM

Leopard, CoreFoundation, and exec()

[ #34942 ]

Under Leopard, using Mac::Carbon:

[pudge@bourque ~]$ happening
Running background process /Users/pudge/bin/happening (983)
The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
Break on __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___ YOU_MUST_EXEC__() to debug.

Apparently, fork-without-exec with CoreFoundation has always been bad. But it is now an exception.

So in the happening program, I had:

$pid = fork;
exit if $pid;

Now I have:

if (!$nofork) {
    $pid = fork;
    exit if $pid;
    exec($0, '-nofork');
}

YMMV.


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  • You know, between my own experiences with process handling and sysctl on the Mac, comments like yours, and the lack of Java 6, I have come to one inescapable conclusion.

    The Mac as a development platform is Just. Not. That. Good.

    • Shrug. Works for me.
    • Lack of Java6 AT THE MOMENT doesn't mean a thing. Apple could be working on it. They just need to freaking let the community know what is going on.
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