Re: Detection of hadware feature => please do not use signal

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Bastien Roucariès <rouca(at)debian(dot)org>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Detection of hadware feature => please do not use signal
Date: 2024-10-31 17:48:48
Message-ID: 1156374.1730396928@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> On 31/10/2024 17:41, Bastien Roucariès wrote:
>> Could you use the canonical way under linux

> We used to do that, but it was changed in commit 1c72ec6f. Looking at
> the discussion that led to it, it's not clear to me why we switched [1].

The complaint was precisely that it would not work under non-linux.

Maybe we could do it one way on linux and the other way everywhere
else, but I do not find that attractive; it just makes it harder
to get full test coverage.

regards, tom lane

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