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

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers-win32 <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch
Date: 2003-12-15 18:23:14
Message-ID: 3FDDFC12.608@dunslane.net
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>> Now for the fun
>>part (signals).
>>
>>
>
>Actually, no. I thought fork/exec would be a real mess (as did Tom),
>but Claudio has done an excellent job of producing a minimal patch. The
>work isn't done yet, but this small patch has taken us much closer, so I
>assume signals will be even easier.
>

Well, it's speculation on both our parts :-). ISTM we'll need an
explicit event loop to check the shmem (or whatever we use to simulate
signals) every so often - maybe that will be easy, I don't know - I'm
interested to see what turns up. (Of course, if we were threaded we'd
just need a thread to watch for the event ...)

cheers

andrew

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