Please note there is parallel::mcparallel/mccollect in R which provides
similar functionality, mcparallel starts a new job and mccollect allows
to wait for it.
You are right about _exit, but there are additional issues which cannot
be solved independently in an external package, and, such a low level
interface cannot be used without race conditions from R anyway.
Best
Tomas
On 11/09/2017 02:55 AM, danlrobertso...@gmail.com wrote:
>> tempdir(). I think it happens because the forked process shares the
>> value of tempdir() with the parent process and removes it when it
>> exits.
> This is very likely the case. Pretty much the entire library can be
> summed up by bfork_fork, which is the following.
>
> SEXP res;
> pid_t pid;
> if((pid = fork()) == 0) {
> PROTECT(res = eval(lang1(fn), R_GlobalEnv));
> PROTECT(res = eval(lang2(install("q"), mkString("no")),
> R_GlobalEnv));
> UNPROTECT(2);
> }
>
> return ScalarInteger(pid);
>
> I wrote this lib when I was still in school and can see several issues
> with the implementation of `bfork_fork`. This issue happens because
> we do not exit with _exit, but by essentially calling q("no").
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
>
>
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