Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone
Date: 2001-01-27 18:17:01
Message-ID: 200101271817.NAA13150@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Jan Wieck wrote:
> >Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Jan Wieck writes:
> >>
> >> > Exactly the way you want it to do (open(2) and close(2) of a
> >> > UNIX domain socket) was what I had to do to get an old
> >> > Mach3-4.3BSD combo into a kernel-panic.
> >>
> >> The lock file is an ordinary file.
> >
> > So the crazy-temp-vacuum-cleaner on linux doesn't touch the
> > sockets?
>
> tmpreaper does - that's why I moved the socket in Debian.

But you have complete control over the OS, while we don't. The problem
I see of moving it is that only Debian-compiled clients will work on
Debian systems.

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