On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 02:01 PM, Max Horn wrote:

> No, since the debian tools require root access. Debian solves this with 
> the fakeroot tool, but you can't just recompile that for OS X, it has 
> to be rewritten. Finlay and me were looking into it a bit, not sure if 
> Finlay is still working on it.

All the communicate code would need reworking to use 
CoreFoundation/CFMessage, but we could probably get semaphores 
implemented using the shim from PostgreSQL. Depending on the scope of 
the changes, it might be easier to just rewrite it from scratch and 
incorporate the logic and ideas.

  -- Finlay


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