Re: [HACKERS] ipc-daemon

From: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ipc-daemon
Date: 2002-11-15 19:02:02
Message-ID: 20021115190201.GA1368@tishler.net
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Tom,
Peter,

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:05:25PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:43:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > If you can detect that cygipc is not running, then ENOSYS seems the
> > best choice for reporting that. (ENOSPC would be misleading too.)
>
> Thanks for your feedback. I will take this to the Cygwin list and see
> what happens.

I happy to report that the above has been accomplished:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-11/msg00025.html

Hopefully, the Cygwin initdb and postmaster hang posts will be a thing
of the past. Unfortunately, they probably will be replaced by questions
like:

Why does initdb fail with "IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(...) failed:
Function not implemented?"

Jason

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