Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am confused because you say "dangling" then you say "to the real > > socket". You are saying it isn't dangling when the server is running? > > Exactly. When the server is running it provides a perfectly good path > to the postmaster. The point (and the main difference from your PIDfile > proposal) is that it's supposed to be there all the time, even when the > postmaster isn't running. This is what provides protection against the > spoofer getting there first.
OK, got it. > > If you are going to require the admin to modify the tmp cleanup script, > > the admin might as well create the symlink at the same time and have it > > recreate on boot. > > No, that's not the same, because it doesn't provide protection against > the symlink getting deleted later on. Right, so you have to modify the tmp cleaner and create the symlink, right? -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
