Re: Antw: Re: Patch for NetWare support

Hello together,

I've looked into the problem in more detail again and i've found a bug
in LibC on NetWare. I've never seen this before with other
applications but now we can forget about this "hack".

I must say thanks for opening my eyes and solve this in a correct way.

Ulrich

>>> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 13.08.2002 19:28 >>>
"Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:54:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Should we even do that? What is srgc[0], and why should we care
whether
>> it can tell the difference between postgres and postmaster?

> Depends on how much we want Netware support. I'm assuming srgc[0] is
the
> Netware equivalent of argv[0], and is being used to determine the
name
> of the current executable.

Oh, oh, it's probably just a typo for argv[0]. Okay, I take back that
thought ... we do need argv[0] to work.

A system-dependent hack in the Makefiles would be at least as ugly as
a
system-dependent hack in main.c, but I think I like it better because
then the startup procedure isn't any different on netware than
anywhere
else. If I understood the patch as given, people would've had to say
"postmaster -post ..." on netware; that's bad.

regards, tom lane

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