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

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster
Date: 2001-03-06 19:54:44
Message-ID: 20010306115444.S8663@fw.wintelcom.net
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* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [010306 11:49] wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > What I don't like is that my /usr/include/sys/shm.h (through other
> > headers) has [foo]
> > whereas /usr/src/linux/include/shm.h has [bar]
>
> Are those declarations perhaps bit-compatible? Looks a tad endian-
> dependent, though ...

Of course not, the size of the struct changed (short->unsigned
long, basically int16_t -> uint32_t), because the kernel and userland
in Linux are hardly in sync you have the fun of guessing if you
get:

old struct -> old syscall (ok)
new struct -> old syscall (boom)
old struct -> new syscall (boom)
new struct -> new syscall (ok)

Honestly I think this problem should be left to the vendor to fix
properly (if it needs fixing), the sysV API was published at least
6 years ago, they ought to have it mostly correct by now.

--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]

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