Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch
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Msg-id 28144.1071675352@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I see for the CONNX driver code that handles signal masking:

Aren't these functions in themselves totally thread-unsafe?

That wouldn't matter in a non-thread-based implementation, but if you
are going to rely on a second thread to handle signal processing, all
of the code that manipulates the private state of the signal emulation
had better be thread-safe.

            regards, tom lane

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