Re: [HACKERS] Missing headers Windows NT port - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Missing headers Windows NT port
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Msg-id 199809111517.LAA00360@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to RE: [HACKERS] Missing headers Windows NT port  (Magnus Hagander <mha@edu.sollentuna.se>)
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> Hi!
>
> Have you checked that the SysV IPC functions actually exist? Last time I
> checked, SysV shared memory was not implemented in cygwin32, and that was
> the reason the headers were not there. This was some time ago, so they may
> well have implemented them now - but then my guess would be that they had
> included the headers too.
> Anyway. It might be worth checking before you get too dug-in to other parts.
> I believe this is a central part of the backend, so you will probably have a
> lot of trouble unless you can find a working implementation of it.

Yes, you will need some sort of shared memory, even if it only a file
that can be mmap'ed into the memory of each backend.  Hopefully they
have something that will work.

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