From 2c35e35b30bcbde571e8099a50145945ca94925c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn Hickey <glenn.hickey@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:41:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] disable forking in snapshot writing

---
 kyototycoon/kttimeddb.cc | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kyototycoon/kttimeddb.cc b/kyototycoon/kttimeddb.cc
index a11fe64..490dc06 100644
--- a/kyototycoon/kttimeddb.cc
+++ b/kyototycoon/kttimeddb.cc
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ bool TimedDB::dump_snapshot_atomic(const std::string& dest, kc::Compressor* zcom
         info == typeid(kc::StashDB) || info == typeid(kc::CacheDB) ||
         info == typeid(kc::GrassDB)) forkable = true;
   }
+  
+  /* hack to get cactus running on Ubuntu 18.04 
+     see: https://github.com/ComparativeGenomicsToolkit/cactus/pull/148#issuecomment-589151694
+  */
+  forkable = false;
+  
   int64_t cpid = -1;
   if (forkable) {
     class Forker : public kc::BasicDB::FileProcessor {