Julia has more sophisticated multi-processing tools but I want to experiment with some low level options. I expected this code to print the child pid from the parent and 0 from the child but it only prints from the parent and signal (6): Aborted What is going wrong? function main() pid = ccal…

The julia runtime is not fork-safe (as is generally the case for multi-threaded programs). There are possibilities, but none of them easy. I would advise against attempting this.

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giordano December 2, 2021, 10:18am 3

Adding to Keno’s answer, here is the relevant issue on Github (closed as won’t fix): https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8295

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