Can anyone help me with this following? The standard idiom for protecting mutexes across fork is to register atfork handlers which lock the mutex in the `prepare' handler before the fork, and unlock them in the post-fork handlers. The toy program given below follows this convention. To aid debugging I've used error checking mutexes. The problem is trying to unlock the mutex in the child, where the attempt fails with EPERM. #include <assert.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> static pthread_mutex_t mutex = PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER; static void lock_mutex ( pthread_mutex_t *m ) { int err = pthread_mutex_lock ( m ); if ( 0 != err ) { printf ( "error locking mutex: %s\n", sys_errlist [ err ] ); exit ( 1 ); } } /* lock_mutex */ static void unlock_mutex ( pthread_mutex_t *m, char *id ) { int err = pthread_mutex_unlock ( m ); if ( 0 != err ) { printf ( "%s: error locking mutex: %s\n", id, sys_errlist [ err ] ); exit ( 1 ); } } /* unlock_mutex */ static void atfork_prepare (void) { lock_mutex ( &mutex ); } /* atfork_prepare */ static void atfork_post_common ( char *id ) { unlock_mutex ( &mutex, id ); } /* atfork_post_common */ static void atfork_parent (void) { atfork_post_common ( "parent" ); } /* atfork_parent */ static void atfork_child (void) { atfork_post_common ( "child" ); } /* atfork_child */ int main ( int argc, char *argv [] ) { int err; pid_t pid; err = pthread_atfork ( atfork_prepare, atfork_parent, atfork_child ); assert ( 0 == err ); pid = fork (); if ( 0 == pid ) { printf ( "child\n" ); } else if ( pid > 0 ) { printf ( "parent\n" ); } else { perror ( "error forking\n" ); } return 0; } I build like this: cc -g t_atfork.c -lpthread -o t_atfork and I see the following output: i386-darwin% ./t_atfork parent child: error unlocking mutex: Operation not permitted What am I not getting right? Thanks, Ariel Burton _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com