Derek Lewis

@dlewis.io

CTO, Software Engineer. Opinions expressed are my own.

Just discovered that macOS in 2026 does not have a fork event mechanism. Trying to debug forking web server implementing that I'm writing, and lldb's follow fork setting to automatically attach to a child process does not work.

Screenshot of a terminal window showing an lldb debugging session on macOS 26. The author attempts to set a breakpoint and have lldb follow the child process on a fork() for the breakpoint to trigger, but macOS does not support follow on fork.