Re: shmem_seq may be a bad idea

Thomas Lockhart writes:

> > A while ago while thinking about a way to make ipcclean better I thunk
> > that perhaps the postmaster should write the keys of the segments it gets
> > to a flat-text file. If it somehow crashes and loses track of what it
> > allocated before it can use that information to clean up. Not sure how
> > often that would take effect but it's very socially friendly.
> 
> Hmm. Could we write this to a separate shared memory segment?

But how would ipcclean get to the key of *that* segment? I was thinking
file because that'd always be in a known location and could also be
accessible to humans to sort things out by hand or debug stuff.


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