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aidenn0 on Oct 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why threads can't fork

I use daemontools to monitor my daemons, so I've never tried to daemonize a lisp daemon. With SBCL you can still fork so long as you do it before you spawn any threads. I'm guessing that RESTAS uses the sb-posix:fork function to daemonize, which would explain why it only works on sbcl.

616c on Oct 18, 2014 [–]

Neat. Thanks for the explanation. I had installed RESTAS inside of a Clozure CL image but had not gotten as far as daemonization and forking.

Judging from the one sentence on the landing page, I supposed it would blow up. Haha.

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