Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> writes:
> This is pretty bad. But note that it is considered as pretty rude from a
> modern OS to just die because of an application it does not like. Is it
> fix with the recent 10.6.2 OS X update?
I suspect that OSX dies when we kill a process with pid==-1 %-|
Bennett, could you try this new patch?
JMarc
svndiff src/support/
Index: src/support/ForkedCalls.cpp
===================================================================
--- src/support/ForkedCalls.cpp (révision 31917)
+++ src/support/ForkedCalls.cpp (copie de travail)
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ bool ForkedProcess::running() const
void ForkedProcess::kill(int tol)
{
lyxerr << "ForkedProcess::kill(" << tol << ')' << endl;
- if (pid() == 0) {
+ if (pid() <= 0) {
lyxerr << "Can't kill non-existent process!" << endl;
return;
}
@@ -192,7 +192,13 @@ void ForkedProcess::kill(int tol)
pid_t ForkedProcess::fork() {
-#if !defined (HAVE_FORK)
+/* FIXME fork() is not usable on Mac OS X 10.6 (snow leopard)
+ * Use something else like threads.
+ *
+ * Since I do not know how to determine at run time what is the OS X
+ * version, I just disable forking altogether for now (JMarc)
+ */
+#if !defined (HAVE_FORK) || defined(__APPLE__)
return -1;
#else
pid_t pid = ::fork();
