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Comments: In-reply-to "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@tocr.com>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@tocr.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Mind you, I find the SysV APIs uselessly baroque too, but there is one
>> feature that we have to have that is not in mmap(): the ability to
>> detect other processes attached to a shmem block.

> Didn't we solve this problem on Windows?

Not terribly well --- see active thread on -hackers.

			regards, tom lane