On 02/16/2014 03:59 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Yes, but the problem is that depending on what the user intends to do
> after forking, our pthread_atfork handler might help or it might hurt,
> and we don't know which. Consider these two cases:
>   - fork+exec
>   - fork+continue to use OMP in child
> The former case is totally POSIX-legal, even when performed at
> arbitrary places, even when another thread is, say, in the middle of
> calling malloc(). 

Point well taken.


r~

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