Hangs on toStringZ()

[Nemanja Boric via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 11:30:22 UTC, Nemanja Boric 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 11:21:34 UTC, Nemanja Boric 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 December 2016 at 17:27:14 UTC, unDEFER wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Just a note here, string literals are already 0 terminated, so 
>> you don't need `toStringz` there.
>
> Ah, I just saw Stefan already made this remark, sorry.
>
> Given that you're in a forked process, it could be that you've 
> just got your GC in a broken state (internal was locked prior 
> to forking, and now you can't get the GC ever, since there's 
> nothing to unlock it.
>
> What you should do is following:
>
> 1. Allocate all needed data, convert all D strings into C 
> strings, etc.
> 2. fork
> 3. exec immediately, not using anything from standard library 
> between 2 and 3.

My other guess is that you're using D threads in your application?