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Author	barry
Recipients	barry, ned.deily, pablogsal, ronaldoussoren
Date	2018-11-13.02:00:10
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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I'm still testing this solution, but it looks like if you set the environment variable, and then double fork, the granchild won't crash. Roughly: os.putenv('OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY', 'YES') pid = os.fork() if pid == 0: subpid = os.fork() if subpid == 0: # I'm in a safe grandchild

I'm still testing this solution, but it looks like if you set the environment variable, and then double fork, the granchild won't crash.  Roughly:

os.putenv('OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY', 'YES')
pid = os.fork()
if pid == 0:
    subpid = os.fork()
    if subpid == 0:
        # I'm in a safe grandchild

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-11-13 02:00:10	barry	set	recipients: + barry, ronaldoussoren, ned.deily, pablogsal
2018-11-13 02:00:10	barry	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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2018-11-13 02:00:10	barry	create