Re: [HACKERS] Missing headers Windows NT port
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: mha@edu.sollentuna.se (Magnus Hagander)
Cc: JKraaijeveld@askesis.nl, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-09-11T15:17:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Hi! > > Have you checked that the SysV IPC functions actually exist? Last time I > checked, SysV shared memory was not implemented in cygwin32, and that was > the reason the headers were not there. This was some time ago, so they may > well have implemented them now - but then my guess would be that they had > included the headers too. > Anyway. It might be worth checking before you get too dug-in to other parts. > I believe this is a central part of the backend, so you will probably have a > lot of trouble unless you can find a working implementation of it. Yes, you will need some sort of shared memory, even if it only a file that can be mmap'ed into the memory of each backend. Hopefully they have something that will work. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)