Re: Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux?

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux?
Date: 2016-12-07 05:13:41
Message-ID: 20161207.141341.354688247472486759.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> Potential risks involving minor upgrades are far higher than the risks
> involved by systemd, so -1 for a backpatch seen from here.

As long as we would have a compile time switch to enable/disable the
back-patched feature, it seems it would be acceptable. In the worst
case, the back-patching could bring disasters, but in that case
packagers could turn off the switch and ship updated version of
packages.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp

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