Re: Opportunistic GC

[Andrea Corallo]

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> I also expect fork will work, I'm more wondering about interaction with
>> sockets file descriptors or anything else in our codebase and/or in
>> libraries we have loaded.
>>
>> I've read in the past this is an issue in practice in non trivial code
>> and that, because the typical use of fork () nowadays is just to run
>> afterward exec (), operating in the grey between the two was not really
>> a good idea.  But I don't have the reference now and if you say it works
>> I've no reasons not to trust you.
>
> The restriction is that you can only call async-signal-safe functions
> in subprocesses before exec. See e.g. the man page for fork on
> GNU/Linux.

Can we enforce that for our case?

  Andrea