Re: Something fishy happening on frogmouth

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Something fishy happening on frogmouth
Date: 2013-11-04 15:05:54
Message-ID: 11702.1383577554@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2013-11-04 13:13:27 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> On 04.11.2013 11:55, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Also, I don't think it's portable across platforms to access segments
>>> that already have been unlinked.

>> See
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695299/functions/shm_unlink.html:
>> "If one or more references to the shared memory object exist when the object
>> is unlinked, the name shall be removed before shm_unlink() returns, but the
>> removal of the memory object contents shall be postponed until all open and
>> map references to the shared memory object have been removed."

> We also support sysv shmem and have the same cleanup problem there.

And what about Windows?

regards, tom lane

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