On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Henrik Bengtsson
> wrote:
>> When using multicore-forking of the parallel package, is it possible
>> for a child process to know that it is a fork?
>
> R
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Henrik Bengtsson
wrote:
> When using multicore-forking of the parallel package, is it possible
> for a child process to know that it is a fork?
R internally uses R_isForkedChild to prevent certain operations within
the fork. However I
When using multicore-forking of the parallel package, is it possible
for a child process to know that it is a fork? Something like:
parallel::mclapply(1:10, FUN = function(i) { test_if_running_in_a_fork() })
I'm looking into ways to protect against further parallel processes
(including