Still, I do not get any error with package parallel in my Mavericks. I compiled though R with a gcc 4.8.2.
On 30 Oct 2013, at 18:26, Jeroen Ooms <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Simon Urbanek > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I didn't have time to look (will do later today), but a wild guess is that >> Apple was moving away from some common libraries like OpenSSL and replacing >> them with their own which could be CF-based and thus unsafe. Again, that's >> wild guess, I'll have to look at the trace to confirm that. > > Thanks. It's unfortunate though, these developments are limiting the > usefulness of the parallel package on the mac, because a lot of basic > functionality is now considered "unsafe" to use in a forked process, > even though on Linux there is no problem at all. I also don't get why > osx decides to kill both the parent and child process when the child > attempt to do something unsafe. That doesn't seem the most graceful > way of dealing with things. > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
