From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-06-21T23:13:18+09:00
Subject: Re: "warning: fork terminates thread"

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Hal Fulton wrote:

> I'm not really troubled by this much, but I want to understand it.
>
> Apparently there's no way to carry a running thread across a fork.
> This is fine -- no one should try that anyway IMO.
>
> My concerns are:
> 1. The phrasing makes it sound as though the thread in the parent
>    process is terminated when a fork happens. This, fortunately,
>    is not the case.
> 2. Sometimes I get this message when I think there should be no
>    threads still running. Is it possible that the thread is a
>    "false positive" or something? Is there such a thing as a
>    zombie thread?
> 3. And finally, is there a way to disable this specific warning?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Hal

i use this

   def tfork(*args, &block)
     v = $VERBOSE
     begin
       $VERBOSE = nil
       fork(*args, &block)
     ensure
       $VERBOSE = v
     end
   end

it shuts up the warnings

-a
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