Hi,
thanks for the quick rely. Don't you use Leopard to verify that? But I think
you are right. I did some googeling and found that statement here
> This is caused by programs that use the fork() or daemon() function in
> combination with higher-level APIs. In Leopard you cannot use the
> CoreFoundation (CF...) APIs on the child side of a fork() without following
> it with an exec*() function. This has always been true, but Leopard is much
> more stingy about this kind of thing.
>
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1209537&tstart=0
Hope someone finds a fix.
Thanks Holger
2008/12/9 Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Holger Müller wrote:
>
> Hi list! :-)
>
> this is my first message. I am using fink 0.9.0 switched to cvs.
> I have installed jpilot 1.6.0-102 and pilot-link 0.12.3-2.
>
> Until now I was not able to sync my Palm m505 on my MacBook using Leopard
> 10.5.5. In the settings I used "usb:" for the device.
> If I start JPilot from the terminal and press the sync button in the
> application I get these messages printed 4 times:
>
> The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality
>> safely. You MUST exec().
>> Break on
>> __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
>> to debug.
>>
>
>
>
> The command
>
>> > pilot-xfer -p usb: --list
>>
>> Listening for incoming connection on usb:... connected!
>>
>> Reading list of databases in RAM...
>>
>
> works. Also the command "jpilot-sync" works as expected (syncing my Palm on
> the console). Only the sync from the JPilot GUI seems to have a problem. I
> also tried to recompile jpilot without the flock using fcntl (implemented by
> not setting the compiler switch "USE_FLOCK") did not help.
> Does someone have a solution for it?
>
> Thanks Holger
>
>
>
> This is the first report I've seen about this issue.
>
> I don't think this is a matter for flock vs fcntl, but rather something
> specific to how Leopard handles forking. The maintainer for KDE had to put
> a hack in kdelibs3 to handle a similar error.
>
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