Re: semaphore usage "port based"? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kris Kennaway
Subject Re: semaphore usage "port based"?
Date
Msg-id 20060403033146.GA58254@xor.obsecurity.org
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In response to Re: semaphore usage "port based"?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 11:26:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 11:17:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I have no objection to doing that, so long as you are actually doing it
> >> correctly.  This example shows that each jail must have its own SysV
> >> semaphore key space, else information leaks anyway.
>
> > By default SysV shared memory is disallowed in jails.
>
> Hm, the present problem seems to be about semaphores not shared memory

Sorry, I meant IPC.

> ... although I'd not be surprised to find that there's a similar issue
> around shared memory.  Anyway, if FBSD's position is that they are
> uninterested in supporting SysV IPC in connection with jails, then I
> think the Postgres project position has to be that we are uninterested
> in supporting Postgres inside FBSD jails.

No-one is taking a position of being "uninterested", so please don't
be hasty to reciprocate.

Kris

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