Re: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] pgmonitor and Solaris

Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, Mathijs Brands <mathijs@ilse.nl>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-ports <pgsql-ports@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-Admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-29T00:10:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [010328 16:07] wrote:
> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> > FYI, the WU-FTPD code (2.6.0 or better) has a couple of more platforms 
> > including UnixWare.  The UnixWare code will need /dev/kmem permission to 
> > change it's stuff, so I don't know whether we want to do this or not, but 
> > if people are looking at the ps stuff, please look at this as well.
> 
> Well, *I* sure wouldn't run Postgres with write permission on /dev/kmem.
> Especially not just to make ps_status work...

Wow... is this all for "pgmonitor"?

sorry, just my opinion...

If it for pgmonitor then you guys ought to just mark it broken on
these platforms, the non-"ps based" solution could have been
implemented with all the time wasted trying to get the "ps based"
hack working. :(

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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