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: 2004-05-27 18:04:52
Message-ID: 15401.1085681092@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"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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