OS/X fork() officially broken?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 12:04 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:11:33PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Via the discussion thread on
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/518306/ I found the link to the
> > OS/X fork manpage:
> > http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/system/conceptual/manpages_iphoneos/man2/fork.2.html
> > 
> > Despite the link pointing at ios, the text says it is the
> > OS/X manpage for fork(2).
> > 
> > Look at the CAVEATS section. That is likely one of the more
> > technical reasons why Apple switched to something but Samba.
> > For us it does not make any sense at all to even try to
> > revive smbd on OS/X in its current architecture.
> 
> Isn't that an iOS manpage, not an OS/X manpage ?
It's a confusing location for it, but the header says Mac OS X. Another
copy can be found here:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/fork.2.html

> I can't believe they broke fork() so badly. It's a UNIX
> after all..
... if you remove the shiny outside layers, and the plastering on top of
what remains of the BSDish core. ;-)

Cheers,

Jelmer