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> On 2 Sep 2025, at 14:47, Iain Buclaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from Iain Sandoe's message of September 1, 2025 6:23 pm:
>> In use for 2 years or so on Darwin branches, OK for trunk?
>> thanks
>> Iain
>> 
>> --- 8< ---
>> 
>> The collect fork version has two issues on Darwin, first that it seems
>> to hang quite frequently and second that ___fork() is not available on
>> all OS versions.  The remedy here is to avoid its use, for now.
>> 
>> ---
>> .../libdruntime/core/internal/gc/impl/conservative/gc.d  | 9 +++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/libphobos/libdruntime/core/internal/gc/impl/conservative/gc.d 
>> b/libphobos/libdruntime/core/internal/gc/impl/conservative/gc.d
>> index 64b5bed43b1..0cf0a0d9523 100644
>> --- a/libphobos/libdruntime/core/internal/gc/impl/conservative/gc.d
>> +++ b/libphobos/libdruntime/core/internal/gc/impl/conservative/gc.d
>> @@ -30,8 +30,13 @@ module core.internal.gc.impl.conservative.gc;
>> 
>> /***************************************************/
>> version = COLLECT_PARALLEL;  // parallel scanning
>> -version (Posix)
>> -    version = COLLECT_FORK;
>> +version (GNU)
>> +{
>> +  version (linux)
>> +    version = COLLECT_FORK;  // uses clone(), battle tested and reliable
> 
> What about Solaris and *BSD. Are there any outstanding PRs for druntime 
> hanging 
> on those ports too?  Or is specific to Darwin (or possibly emutls?).

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103944

says darwin and i686-linux (so my exclusion of linux is not right), but no 
comment on Solaris or *BSD

IDK how widely this is tested...
Iain

> 
> Iain.

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