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 18:49:23
Message-ID: 3405.1141411763@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What's your point? The script fails anyway if that bit doesn't work.

> Is 'id' better than what we have now if 'id' isn't widely supported?

I'm repeating myself, but: what's your point? 'id' exists on Linux,
and the script fails (in the worst possible way, ie, might remove
inappropriate shmem segments) on all other platforms if it's unable
to detect the correct EffectiveUser. I would argue that checking for a
numeric, nonzero EffectiveUser is going to make it safer not less so.

regards, tom lane

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