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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mischa Sandberg <mischa_sandberg@telus.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: postgresql in FreeBSD jails: proposal
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:09:55 -0500
Message-ID: <25135.1200503395@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1200501702.478e33c61b74e@webmail.telus.net>
References: <1200501702.478e33c61b74e@webmail.telus.net>

Mischa Sandberg <mischa_sandberg@telus.net> writes:
> +               /* In a FreeBSD jail, you can't "kill -0" a postmaster
> +                * running in a different jail, so the shm seg might
> +                * still be in use. Safer to test nattch ?
> +                */
> +               if (kill(1,0) && errno == ESRCH && !PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(0,NextShmSegID))
> +                       continue;

Isn't the last part of that test backward?  If it isn't, I don't
understand what it's for at all.

			regards, tom lane



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