Re: [PATCH] Make ENOSPC not fatal in semaphore creation

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mikhail <mp39590(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make ENOSPC not fatal in semaphore creation
Date: 2021-10-29 03:54:20
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJ-hv-xYcFunJ-efOEZTA+_UBcB1dpY8T9U0nELD6Bk_A@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 10:50 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Sadly, although the attached proof-of-concept patch allows a
> PREFERRED_SEMAPHORES=FUTEX build to pass tests on macOS (which also
> lacks native unnamed semas), FreeBSD and Linux (which don't need this
> but are interesting to test), and it also works on OpenBSD with
> shared_memory_type=sysv, it doesn't work on OpenBSD with
> shared_memory_type=mmap (the default). I suspect OpenBSD's futex(2)
> has a bug: inherited anonymous shared mmap memory seems to confuse it
> so that wakeups are lost. Arrrgh!

FWIW I'm trying to follow up with the OpenBSD list over here, because
it'd be nice to get that working:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=163524454303022&w=2

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