Re: [HACKERS] EINTR error in SunOS

2006-01-02 Thread Doug Royer
... } return(bytesRead); d) say if you mount 'soft' and lose data, tough luck for you I seem to recall from my days at Sun, you should NOT use soft mount for NFS writes at all. Soft mounts are for non-critical disk resources. (Solaris admin manual?) -- Doug Royer

Re: [HACKERS] EINTR error in SunOS

2006-01-02 Thread Doug Royer
. Refuse new connections - until it is back up. Refuse or hang new queries - until it is back up. Retry? What should be done? -- Doug Royer | http://INET-Consulting.com ---|- We Do Standards - You Need Standards

Re: [HACKERS] EINTR error in SunOS

2006-01-01 Thread Doug Royer
EINTR with hard+intr mounts. I am not sure what you get with soft mounts on a timeout. Doug McNaught wrote: Doug Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 'intr' option to NFS is not the same as EINTR. It it means 'if the server does not respond for a while, then return an EINTR', just like any

Re: [HACKERS] EINTR error in SunOS

2006-01-01 Thread Doug Royer
, meaning we want NFS to be as non-failure mode as possible. Making PostgreSQL work on NFS system itself is risky, and allowing it to work on systems that will soft-failure on writes seems even worse. -- Doug Royer | http://INET-Consulting.com

Re: [HACKERS] EINTR error in SunOS

2005-12-31 Thread Doug Royer
in other words, just about any function can signal just about any error including errors that are proprietary additions any time. Good luck :) -- Doug Royer | http://INET-Consulting.com ---|- We Do

Re: [HACKERS] Announcement: planned open source billing system demonstration

2003-09-24 Thread Doug Royer
into large IT infrastructures such as those found in healthcare institutions, clinics and physician practices. . -- Doug Royer | http://INET-Consulting.com ---|- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Office: (208)612-INET

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] division by zero

2003-03-10 Thread Doug Royer
/catch system. No, try/catch does not trap division by zero unless the underlying implementation throws an error there is nothing to catch. On Unix's trap for signal SIGFPE - standard POSIX. -- Doug Royer | http://INET-Consulting.com

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] division by zero

2003-03-10 Thread Doug Royer
Merlin Moncure wrote: Doug Royer wrote: No, try/catch does not trap division by zero unless the underlying implementation throws an error there is nothing to catch. I am absolutely 100% sure that you can catch int/0 with a try catch handler (in c++) on windows platforms (when compiled with ms