On Friday, September 07, 2012 11:19 PM Tom Lane wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> writes:
>> Would socketpair(2) be simpler?
>I've not done anything yet about the potential security issues
>associated with untrusted libpq connection strings. I think this
>is still at the proof-of-concept stage; in particular, it's probably
> time to see if we can make it work on Windows before we worry more
>about that.
I have started working on this patch to make it work on Windows. The 3 main
things to make it work are:
1. Windows equivalent for socketpair - This as suggested previously in this
thread earlier code of pgpipe can suffice the need. Infact I have checked on
net as well, most implementations are similar to pgpipe implementation. So I
prefered to use the existing code which was removed.
2. Windows equivalent for fork-execv - This part can be done by
CreateProcess,it can be similar to internal_forkexec except for path where it
uses shared memory to pass parameters, I am trying to directly pass parameters
to CreateProcess.
3. Windows equivalent for waitpid - Actually there can be 2 ways to accomplish
this
a. use
waitforsingleobject with process handle, but in some places it is mentioned it
might not work for all windows versions. Can someone pls confirm about. I shall
try on my
PC to test the
same.
b. use existing
infrastructure of waitpid, however it is not for single process and it might
need some changes to make it work for single process or may be we can use it
directly. However
currently it is in postmaster.c, so it need to be moved so that we can access
it from fe-connect.c in libpq as well.
c. suggest if you
know of other ways to handle it or which from above 2 would be better?
Some other doubts:
1. does this follow the behavior that admin users will not be allowed to invoke
postgres child process?
2. to find standalone_backend incase user didn't input, do we need mechanism
similar to getInstallationPaths()?
Any other comments/suggestions?
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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