* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: > I don't think a configure-time test is a good idea because there's no > guarantee that the configure-time machine and the run-time machine > have the same behavior. But having initdb fork a child process to run > the test seems like a reasonable way forward, even though I feel like > it shouldn't really be needed. One possibly unfortunate things is > that SIGSYS at least on my box normally produces a core dump, so the > initdb child might leave behind a core file somewhere as a side > effect. Not sure if we can or want to work around that somehow.
I'm going to guess this idea is a non-starter, but any hope there's some
other system call which would tell us we're on a platform where
shm_open() will hit us with SIGSYS? What happens when shm_unlink() is
called on this platform? Or mmap()?
Thanks,
Stephen
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