Re: Mac OS X: system shutdown prevents checkpoint

;;; From: sugita(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp
;;; Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:22:14 +0900 (JST)
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;;; ;;; However, that doesn't explain our OS X problem. I added some debug
;;; ;;; printouts, and can now report positively that (a) the fork() call
;;; ;;; returns normally in the parent process, providing an apparently-correct
;;; ;;; child PID value; but (b) the fork never returns in the child. It
;;; ;;; doesn't ever get as far as trying to enable SIGTERM.
;;; &
;;; ;;; Is it possible that something in the child's fork() processing will wait
;;; ;;; around for a response from a service that's already died? Why is fork()
;;; ;;; dependent on any outside service whatever --- isn't that a certain
;;; ;;; recipe for system failures?
;;;
;;; I asked Apple this issue. This is a bug of Mac OS X. The problem is registered
;;; to their bug database for the appropriate eingineers for investigation.

This problem is fixed for Mac OS X 10.2.

Kenji Sugita