From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2009-07-14T09:43:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Process.fork weirdness


On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Huh, I never knew that. That's dangerous if the parent process is  
> multithreaded, isn't it? Because even if the forking thread flushes  
> all open files, other threads can keep filling buffers before the  
> fork happens.

It is probably a bad idea to have multiple threads writing to a shared  
file descriptor without proper synchronization.  With proper  
synchronization you should be able to safely flush and fork.