Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?
Date: 2006-03-03 17:49:29
Message-ID: 1975.1141408169@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Chris said he did:
>> Well all I did to fix it on FreeBSD was to remove the '-o "$LOGNAME" =
>> 'root'' bit...
> so I figured the patch would help, no?

No, because there's no good reason to suppose that $USER wouldn't be set.

I think we should remove that entire code block, and instead check for a
zero value of EffectiveUser after doing the id bit.

(I'm not finding it right now, but I'm pretty sure that the SUS
specifies that numeric userid == 0 for superuser, whereas "root" is not
required to be the name, so this would be more correct anyway.)

regards, tom lane

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