Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >Have you looked at the CONNX signal code on the Win32 page:
> >
> > http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html
> >
> >It uses shared memory and events.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Yes, and I just did again. I guess I must be missing something, though -
> I don't see what in that code causes the signalled process to call the
> handler corresponding to the signal. Maybe I'm just a little brain dead
> today ...

In the CONNX code for kill() I see:

sprintf(szEventName, "CONNX_SIGNAL_%x", (int) lPID);
sprintf(szSharedMemoryName, "CONNX_SMEM_%x", (int) lPID);
hSharedMemory = OpenFileMapping(FILE_MAP_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, szSharedMemoryName);
if (hSharedMemory) {
/* Call the signal handle for that process.. */
void *pData = MapViewOfFile(hSharedMemory, FILE_MAP_ALL_ACCESS, 0, 0, sizeof(int));
if (pData) {
int nReturn;
HANDLE hProcessHandle;
DWORD ExitCode;
*(int *) pData = nSignal;
UnmapViewOfFile(pData);
/* Open the event handle of the other process */
hEvent = OpenEvent(EVENT_MODIFY_STATE | SYNCHRONIZE, FALSE, szEventName);
hProcessHandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, FALSE, lPID);
if (hEvent) {
SetEvent(hEvent);
/* Wait for Event to be processed. */
do {
nReturn = WaitForSingleObject(hEvent, 0);

Now, I am no Win32 programmer, but the mixture of OpenFileMapping() and
OpenEvent() looked promising. :-)

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