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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject do we EXEC_BACKEND on Mac OS X?
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Responses Re: do we EXEC_BACKEND on Mac OS X?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: do we EXEC_BACKEND on Mac OS X?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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See the CAVEATS here:

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

Apparently fork() without exec() isn't all that well supported.

Noticed while perusing
http://lwn.net/Articles/518306/

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