| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Ulrich Neumann <U_Neumann(at)gne(dot)de>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Antw: Re: Patch for NetWare support |
| Date: | 2002-08-12 20:34:36 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0208121633200.9780-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net |
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Peter Eisentraut dijo:
> Ulrich Neumann writes:
>
> > at the moment NetWare doesn't have symbolic links so it's the only
> > chance for me to decide between postmaster, bootstrap or normal
> > interactive backend.
>
> Does it have hard links? Does it have 'ln' at all? Otherwise we should
> define $(LN_S) to 'cp' and just make a copy. That way we avoid patching
> up the code.
Doesn't the cp trick invalidate the fork-no-exec performance
optimization?
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"Find a bug in a program, and fix it, and the program will work today.
Show the program how to find and fix a bug, and the program
will work forever" (Oliver Silfridge)
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