Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

From: teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster
Date: 2001-03-07 01:50:52
Message-ID: xuy1ysaqrcz.fsf@halden.devel.redhat.com
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ncm(at)zembu(dot)com (Nathan Myers) writes:

> On Linux, /usr/src/linux/include is meaningless for anything in userland;
> it's meant only for building the kernel and kernel modules. That Red Hat
> tends to expose it to user-level builds is a long-standing bug in Red
> Hat's distribution

1) it isn't this way anyore
2) this was so for most distributions for a loong time, not a "Red
Hat" bug.

> in violation of the File Hierarchy Standard as well as explicit
> instructions from Linus & crew and from the maintainer of the C
> library.

Which obviously hasn't always been the case - the FHS isn't exactly old.
Things have changed since then, we have followed.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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