Re: Re: best Cygwin release/snapshot for Postgresql

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jason Tishler <Jason(dot)Tishler(at)dothill(dot)com>
Cc: Fred Yankowski <fcy(at)ontosys(dot)com>, Pgsql-Ports <pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: best Cygwin release/snapshot for Postgresql
Date: 2001-04-13 14:36:07
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0104131634040.945-100000@peter.localdomain
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Jason Tishler writes:

> I used 7.1rc4 from Cygwin's contrib and everything seems to work as
> expected. The regression tests all passed. Even the enhanced AF_UNIX
> security worked as advertised. If the client (i.e., psql) has read
> access to the socket file (i.e., /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432), then it can connect
> to postmaster. Otherwise, the client gets a "Permission denied" failure.

Actually, connections to Unix domain sockets are controlled by *write*
access to the socket file. Maybe Cygwin should change this.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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