Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > James Mansion wrote: > >> (confused) Why can't you use mmap of /dev/zero and inherit the fd > >> into child processes? > > > This is what we do on win32 today. We don't use the sysv emulation > > layer anymore. > > Did we ever find an interlock that makes the win32 implementation > safe against the postmaster-dead-children-still-alive scenario?
Yes. I don't remember the details offhand (and I'm at the airport right now), but the code that I put in there passed all those checks that we could think of. (The one that the old, sysv emulating, code didn't as well) //Magnus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
