On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 22:07, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ISSUE: > Using *forks* for parallel processing in R is not always safe. > [...] > Comments?
Using fork() is never safe. The reference provided by Kevin [1] is pretty compelling (I kindly encourage anyone who ever forked a process to read it). Therefore, I'd go beyond Henrik's suggestion, and I'd advocate for deprecating fork clusters and eventually removing them from parallel. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/04/fork-hotos19.pdf -- Iñaki Úcar ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
