Re: Win32 question: getppid() with no parent?
- From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
- To: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
- Cc: "PgSql-Win32" <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
- Subject: Re: Win32 question: getppid() with no parent?
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:04:52 -0400
- Message-id: <15401(dot)1085681092(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
"Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:
> Question though - we keep a PostmasterPid variable, right?
Yeah we do; we must have it to signal the postmaster from the children.
> (If we can't rely on that variable, we could do a win32 specific hack
> that passes the HANDLE of the postmaster down to the child on exec, I
> guess.)
Is this just like passing a variable value, or is there some more
protection involved?
regards, tom lane
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