[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50400] exit() in forked child doesn't return

[J.J. Green]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #50400 (group octave):

I was caught by this and can confirm the the workaround of comment #6 does
work. 

A couple of comments

- Could "fork() is discouraged" be mentioned in the Octave documentation on
fork()? 

- Perhaps exposing _exit(2) which exits immediately (without running exit
handlers like exit(3)) could give an alternative fix, Ruby does this (see
https://apidock.com/ruby/v2_5_5/Kernel/exit%21) -- that's in C99 (as _Exit()).


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