When used with RSpec, OS X Mountain Lion kernel panics

[moll]

That's a bit of a crazy issue and quite definitely not the fault of Vimrunner, but checking to see if anyone else experiences something similar and whether they've found a workaround.

With the following .rspec file:

--default-path test
--pattern test/**/*_test.rb
--require ./test/rspec

And with the following test/rspec.rb file:

require "vimrunner"

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.before(:suite) do
    @vim = Vimrunner.start
  end

  config.after(:suite) do
    @vim.kill if @vim
  end
end

Every time I run rspec, the kernel panics with negative open count and lists Vim as the process. Running vimrunner on the command line itself does not.

[AndrewRadev]

Wow, that's an odd problem. I can't really think of anything that Vimrunner is doing that might cause a kernel panic. I don't have a Mac, so I can't try to reproduce this, either. I'll leave the issue open in the hope that someone else might have an idea.

[moll]

I originally thought it might have something to do with at_exit and how external processes might be killed before at_exit fires, but seeing that MiniTest also uses it and it works there, I'm not so sure.

But thanks, hopefully someone using a Mac comes to check and we can get to the bottom of this.

[AndrewRadev]

It's been a while, and it doesn't seem like there's anybody out there that could help :). I'll go ahead and close this issue, since there's not much I can do about it.