See the CAVEATS here:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/fork.2.html

Apparently fork() without exec() isn't all that well supported.

Noticed while perusing
http://lwn.net/Articles/518306/

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• Re: do we EXEC_BACKEND on Mac OS X? at 2012-10-03 16:15:35 from Bruce Momjian
• Re: do we EXEC_BACKEND on Mac OS X? at 2012-10-03 16:26:42 from Tom Lane

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