Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] pgmonitor and Solaris

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:23:16PM -0500, Tom Lane allegedly wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:33:05PM -0500, Bruce Momjian allegedly wrote:
> >> Sure 'ps -U' will work, but it was reported that on Solaris, plain ps
> >> can't show the postgres status display, while ucb/ps can. I don't need
> >> specific columns. What I need is the postgres status parameters, and if
> >> possible, a user restriction to ps for performance reasons.
>
> Looking at the sendmail code, it seems they use SPT_REUSEARGV (what we
> call PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV) technique on Solaris. Possibly the problem is
> simply that line 65 in src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c fails to
> cover Solaris as one of the possible options:
>
> #elif defined(__linux__) || defined(_AIX4) || defined(_AIX3) || defined(__sgi) || (defined(sun) && !defined(BSD)) || defined(ultrix) || defined(__ksr__) || defined(__osf__) || defined(__QNX__) || defined(__svr4__) || defined(__svr5__)
> #define PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV
>
> Can someone check whether adding an appropriate Solaris symbol (which
> one?) fixes the problem?

PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV -is- used on Solaris. I just checked.

ilsedb:~$ uname -a
SunOS ilsedb 5.7 Generic_106541-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
ilsedb:~$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("%d\n", __svr4__);
}
ilsedb:~$ gcc -o test test.c
ilsedb:~$ ./test
1

Regards,

Mathijs
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