From 31743e869875ae77eabfb6f822fc014b0822ccf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: andreask <andreask>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:21:13 +0000
Subject: Tweak to the fix. Tcl_InitNotifier() hangs. Removed. Fixes exec.
 Unclear about Rivet with original case.

---
 unix/tclUnixNotfy.c | 15 +++++----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c b/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
index 025dfd4..505d205 100644
--- a/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
+++ b/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
@@ -1344,21 +1344,16 @@ AtForkChildProc(void)
     /*
      * Reset the notifier reference count to zero (i.e. not initialized).
      * This should force the notifier initialization code to be re-run the
-     * very next time Tcl_InitNotifier is called, which will be just below
-     * this statement.
+     * very next time Tcl_InitNotifier is called.
+     *
+     * For a plain [exec ...] this will not happen, and everything is fine.
+     * For a full fork of the interpreter (like apache Rivet) it is not clear
+     * to me (AK) where TIN would be called.
      */
 
     notifierCount = 0;
 
     /*
-     * Force the notifier subsystem to be initialized now.  This should
-     * create the notifier thread in this process.  Subsequently, that new
-     * thread will re-open the trigger pipe.
-     */
-
-    Tcl_InitNotifier();
-
-    /*
      * Finally, release the notifier mutex (which has been held since the
      * AtForkPrepareProc() was called via pthread_atfork()).
      */
-- 
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