From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bill Studenmund <wrstuden(at)zembu(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, spshealy(at)yahoo(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: SIGCHLD handler in Postgres C function. |
Date: | 2001-07-30 23:47:41 |
Message-ID: | 200107302347.f6UNlfs07537@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > The auto-reaping is standard SysV behavior, while BSD is really ignore.
>
> You'll recall the ECHILD exception was installed by Tatsuo after seeing
> problems on Solaris. Evidently Solaris uses the auto-reap behavior too.
SVr4/Solaris took the SysV behavior. Steven's didn't like it. :-)
> I'm somewhat surprised that HPUX does not --- it tends to follow its
> SysV heritage when there's a conflict between that and BSD practice.
> Guess they went BSD on this one.
I thought HPUX was mostly SysV tools on BSD kernel.
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