Re: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] pgmonitor and Solaris

* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [010328 16:07] wrote:
> Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
> > FYI, the WU-FTPD code (2.6.0 or better) has a couple of more platforms
> > including UnixWare. The UnixWare code will need /dev/kmem permission to
> > change it's stuff, so I don't know whether we want to do this or not, but
> > if people are looking at the ps stuff, please look at this as well.
>
> Well, *I* sure wouldn't run Postgres with write permission on /dev/kmem.
> Especially not just to make ps_status work...

Wow... is this all for "pgmonitor"?

sorry, just my opinion...

If it for pgmonitor then you guys ought to just mark it broken on
these platforms, the non-"ps based" solution could have been
implemented with all the time wasted trying to get the "ps based"
hack working. :(

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