I have recently installed Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) on my Macbook Pro
(newly purchased) and now "shell, ls, dir" etc do not work in StataSE 10.
To be more precise everything is just fine in command line stata but
they break
in GUI stata. MacOS pops up the debugger with a post mordem the most
interesting
part of which (and probably the root of the problem is):
......
Application Specific Information:
USING_FORK_WITHOUT_EXEC_IS_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_FILE_MANAGER
abort() called
......
It should be noted that stata GUI stata does not really crash. This
indicates that the message
above describes the situation: GUI stata is threading without an exec
before and this is no longer
allowed in Mac OS 10.6. This crashes the thread but not the application.
Large parts of my code relies on the stata file utils and hence is not
working any more. Chances
are stata 11 has the same issues. If anybody from stata is listening a
quick fix would be greatly
appreciated.
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