From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Detection of hadware feature => please do not use signal
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> On 31/10/2024 17:41, Bastien Roucariès wrote:
>> Could you use the canonical way under linux

> We used to do that, but it was changed in commit 1c72ec6f. Looking at 
> the discussion that led to it, it's not clear to me why we switched [1]. 

The complaint was precisely that it would not work under non-linux.

Maybe we could do it one way on linux and the other way everywhere
else, but I do not find that attractive; it just makes it harder
to get full test coverage.

			regards, tom lane