On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 7:23 PM Simon Urbanek
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> Henrik,
>
> the whole point and only purpose of mc* functions is to fork. That's what the
> multicore package was about, so if you don't want to fork, don't use mc*
> functions - they don't have any other purpose.
But, with that same argu
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 12:53 PM Simon Urbanek
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> > I think it works now, because Apple switched to a different SSL
> > library for libcurl. It usually crashes or fails on older macOS
> > versions, with the CRAN build of R as well.
> >
>
> That is not true - Apple has not changed the S
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 4:14 AM Simon Urbanek
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> > In general, any code that calls the macOS system libraries might
> > crash. (Except for CoreFoundation, which seems to be fine, but AFAIR
> > there is no guarantee for that, either.)
> >
>
> That is not true, either. macOS itself is fo
