From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...>
Date: 2013-04-07T23:26:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:54085] Re: Thread/fork issue

> On second thought, I feel exit! is more essential solution.
>
> Because there may be other objects which behaves as "flush at finalization",
> flushing IO objects is not enough.
>
> The problem is finalization is occur twice (at parent and child).
> If ruby uses exit! for forked process, we can avoid dual finalization.
>
> However it means users of fork must finalize objects explicitly in
> forked process.
> For example, fork { print "a" } may lost "a" because buffered "a" is
> not flushed.

Also, Process.exit! escape to run at_exit handler. I think exit! is too drastic.
it help many situation than flushing, but also makes much side effect. I suspect
"fork { print "a" }" type output lost makes lots test-all break.

Instead of, providing fork callback likes pthread_atfork() and uses it?