Greetings!

Gabriel Dos Reis <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Camm --
>
>    It is "safe" for a C function linked into GCL image to call fork()?
>
> Thanks,
>

In general, yes.  This is used already in several places, esp.  cvs
head.

Please keep in mind that fork usually uses copy on write pages, so
that if you gc in the child, you will page out and copy basically the
entire heap.

Take care,

> -- Gaby
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Camm Maguire                                        [email protected]
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