GC deadlocks on linux

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:15:12 +0000, Kagamin wrote:

> On Saturday, 28 February 2015 at 05:32:51 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 06:09:16 +0100, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>
>>> Meanwhile the author of daemonized came up with another idea, using
>>> exec instead of fork. https://github.com/NCrashed/daemonize/issues/2
>>
>> ahem. http://forum.dlang.org/post/mc35ap$2dvo$51@digitalmars.com
> 
> Bug 6846 is supposedly caused by usage of GC. Can't recent spawnProcess
> from phobos be used to start a process? It works around GC after fork
> sufficiently enough.

it doesn't "workaround" in any way, it does exactly what it is supposed 
to do: it running *new* process. no workarounds needed for that, and it 
does no allocations in child process after forking point.
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