Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes: > James Mansion wrote: >> (confused) Why can't you use mmap of /dev/zero and inherit the fd >> into child processes? > This is what we do on win32 today. We don't use the sysv emulation > layer anymore. Did we ever find an interlock that makes the win32 implementation safe against the postmaster-dead-children-still-alive scenario? regards, tom lane