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 e501493b-e361-50db-dcb1-24e1402d9444@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 12/7/16 9:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Even with that change, dynamic shared memory is still vulnerable to be
>> removed.
> Really?  I thought we concluded that it is safe because it is detectably
> attached to running processes.

The DSM implementation uses POSIX shared memory, which doesn't have an
attachment count like SysV shared memory.

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