Re: SIGCHLD handler in Postgres C function.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(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 23:45:12
Message-ID: 27651.996536712@sss.pgh.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.

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.

regards, tom lane

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