| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Small patch: --disable-setproctitle flag |
| Date: | 2016-03-31 10:12:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20160331101217.GC23562@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2016-03-31 13:06:05 +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hello
>
> Recently I discovered that renaming processes using setproctitle() call
> on BSD systems may sometimes cause problems. For instance there is
> currently a bug in all versions of LLDB which makes it impossible to
> debug a process that called setproctitle():
>
> https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26924#c3
>
> Since LLVM stack is used by default in FreeBSD I believe it's quite a
> severe problem. In case there is other software that doesn't handle
> stproctitle() well and for users of LLDB <= 3.8 (most recent version)
> I propose to add a --disable-setproctitle flag to configure script.
> Corresponding patch is attached.
Seems more appropriate to simply manually add a #undef HAVE_SETPROCTITLE
to pg_config_manual.h in that case. Adding configure flags for ephemeral
debugger issues seems like a high churn activity.
Andres
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