Re: Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux?
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Msg-id 722c489e-810a-be9c-f005-3b6bdcb4c59f@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Re: Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 12/6/16 9:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think we should give serious consideration to back-patching commit
> ecb0d20a9, which changed the default semaphore type to unnamed-POSIX
> on Linux.

Even with that change, dynamic shared memory is still vulnerable to be
removed.  So backpatching the semaphore change wouldn't achieve any new
level of safety for users so that we could tell them, "you're good now".

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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