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Re: Debugging __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__
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Re: Debugging __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__


  • Subject: Re: Debugging __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__
  • From: Robert Tillyard <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:07:01 +0100

I've had a fair amount of problems with this from code that has worked for years under traditional UNIX implementations.

It appears that if a system call that you make after a fork() calls any Core Foundation function you get this error. We were using a double fork() to separate from the parent process and provide a status back to waitpid() to indicate that the program ran successfully but the first call to XOpenDisplay() causes this error.

We've had to make a different mechanism to spawn background processes now where they call a binary that runs the process then exits.

Not sure if this means that other UNIX systems break some kind of POSIX rule or if Darwin does but this has caused a problem in porting from UNIX to Darwin.

Regards, Rob.

On 8 Apr 2008, at 18:57, Jerry wrote:

We're getting a load of messages of the form:

Break on __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__ () to debug.
The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().


from a thirdparty library we're using. The trouble is, when run under gdb, the messages go away, and my breakpoint isn't hit. How can I debug this and find out what's being called?

Thanks,

Jerry

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