Re[2]: [Gc] [PATCH] define HANDLE_FORK on unix platforms with pthreads

[Ivan Maidanski]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for the information.

Regards.

20 02 2012, 03:38 "Richard O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>:
> 
> On 19/02/2012, at 9:56 AM, Andy Wingo wrote:
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> > On Fri 17 Feb 2012 21:45, Ivan Maidanski <ivmai at mail.ru> writes:
> >
> >> It seems you're proposing the right thing but I guess your patch could
> >> break build for some targets (there are some many Unix targets supported
> >> like xBSD, RTEMS, NaCl, Android, Darwin, DG/UX, HP/UX, Aix, Irix,
> >> Solaris... - does at least pthread_atfork exist everywhere?
> 
> pthread_atfork was in Solaris 2.10 (which I'm still using) and of course
> remains in OpenSolaris (and its forks) and Solaris 2.11.  It's also in
> Mac OS X 10.6.  According to a compatibility list I've been building,
> it's in Linux 2.6 and OpenBSD 4.7, and HP-UX 11i.  I have some AIX manuals
> but haven't integrated those yet, sorry.
> 
>