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diff --git a/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c b/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
index aacc8d2d..2ad1932 100644
--- a/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
+++ b/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
@@ -120,6 +120,15 @@ static Tcl_ThreadDataKey dataKey;
static int notifierCount = 0;
/*
+ * The following static stores the process ID of the initialized notifier
+ * thread. If it changes, we have passed a fork and we should start a new
+ * notifier thread.
+ *
+ * You must hold the notifierMutex lock before accessing this variable.
+ */
+static pid_t processIDInitialized = 0;
+
+/*
* The following variable points to the head of a doubly-linked list of
* ThreadSpecificData structures for all threads that are currently waiting on
* an event.
@@ -275,11 +284,23 @@ Tcl_InitNotifier(void)
*/
Tcl_MutexLock(&notifierMutex);
+ /*
+ * Check if my process id changed, e.g. I was forked
+ * In this case, restart the notifier thread and close the
+ * pipe to the original notifier thread
+ */
+ if (notifierCount > 0 && processIDInitialized != getpid()) {
+ notifierCount = 0;
+ processIDInitialized = 0;
+ close(triggerPipe);
+ triggerPipe = -1;
+ }
if (notifierCount == 0) {
if (TclpThreadCreate(&notifierThread, NotifierThreadProc, NULL,
TCL_THREAD_STACK_DEFAULT, TCL_THREAD_JOINABLE) != TCL_OK) {
Tcl_Panic("Tcl_InitNotifier: unable to start notifier thread");
}
+ processIDInitialized = getpid();
}
notifierCount++;