From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-10-07T10:00:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby lacks atfork : The evil that lives in fork...

John Carter wrote:
> Ah, but that's the point of pthread_atfork... it gives you several
> possible strategies to allow you to mix threads with processes...

You can atfork in ruby; fsdb uses this kind of construct:

module ForkSafely
   def fork
     # clean up before forking
     super do
       # clean up after forking, in child
       # clean up inconsistent mutexes, etc.
       yield
     end
     # clean up after forking, in parent
   end
end

include ForkSafely

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