can clone a thread?

[Gianni Pisetta]

On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at 17:14:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 06:56 AM, Gianni Pisetta wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at 13:39:17 UTC, Ali Çehreli 
>> wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2013 04:04 AM, Gianni Pisetta wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> i want to duplicate/clone a thread with the stack and tls, 
>>>> like the
>>>> standard function fork() in c. Is in the phobos library a 
>>>> method that do
>>>> the same thing?
>>>>
>>>> Gianni Pisetta
>>>
>>> Apparently, there isn't. However, you can use fork() directly 
>>> from the
>>> core.sys.posix.unistd module.
>>>
>>> Ali
>>
>> I had the same idea, but assumed (maybe wrongly) that it 
>> messes up the
>> garbage collection because it creates a copy of the allocated 
>> objects in
>> tls that the gc is not aware of. I searched the core.thread 
>> reference to
>> see if it has a similar method but found none. Then i posted 
>> this
>> question. So is it safe to use fork()? I now realized that i 
>> don't know
>> how the gc works.
>>
>> Gianni Pisetta
>
> I don't know such details but I presume fork() is safe. 
> Grepping in Phobos modules, process.d uses it.
>
> Ali

Ok, thanks for the reply. I will give it a try.

Gianni Pisetta