Gregory Jefferis <jeffe...@gmail.com> writes: > Just to confirm from man kill(2) at: > > http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPag > es/man2/kill.2.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/2/kill
Thanks! > So the choice of -1 as the return value when ForkedProcess::fork() > can't fork turned out to be unfortunate! A pretty funny bug - except > for our poor tester who got an unexpected kill of all his user > processes! Very good point. So the part that avoid killing a process with negative id should be kept. > But seriously, I think there is a big (and increasing) audience for LyX on > Mac and the support of developers in overcoming issues such as this change > of behaviour of fork() on Snow Leopard is much appreciated and a good > investment for the long term future of LyX. Sure it is. But I do not have much time to spend in front of a mac :( JMarc
