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: Samuel Sieb <samuel(at)sieb(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster
Date: 2001-03-08 16:43:16
Message-ID: xuyg0goxlcr.fsf@halden.devel.redhat.com
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Samuel Sieb <samuel(at)sieb(dot)net> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:46:24PM -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
> >
> > 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, in violation of the File Hierarchy Standard as well
> > as explicit instructions from Linus & crew and from the maintainer of the
> > C library.
> >
> Red Hat's Fisher Beta has split the 2 includes, which caused an error trying
> to compile a (I guess badly configured) kernel module.

It was split in Red Hat Linux 7 as well.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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