Re: Proposal for fixing IPC key assignment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Cyril VELTER
Subject Re: Proposal for fixing IPC key assignment
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Msg-id 000376f81d68c5c6_mailit@mail.cybercable.fr
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In response to Proposal for fixing IPC key assignment  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>We have to assign PGSEMMAGIC small enough to ensure that it won't fall
>foul of SEMVMX, but that probably isn't a big problem.  A more serious
>potential portability issue is that some implementations might not
>support the semctl(GETPID) operation (ie, get PID of last process that
>did a semop() on that semaphore).  It seems like a pretty basic part
>of the SysV semaphore functionality to me, but ...  Anyone know of any
>platforms where that's missing?

The beos SysV emulation does not support this call. But, as it's done today, 
adding it should be easy.
           cyril
   
>
>            regards, tom lane
>



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