Re: [HACKERS] BeOS port

I've already tried to put the exec back. But then I hit a problem with 
"MyProcPort" which is not initialised in the backend and make the 
backend crash. I've also found that "MyCancelKey" is set in postmaster. 
Are there any others ? 

Regarding the old code (6.3.2), there have been a lot of change in 
DoBackend/DoExec. I really need some expert advice on what to do.

cyril


>>     Hi alls
>> 
>>     I'm working on a port of postgres on BeOS (www.be.com). BeOS is not 
>> a real UNIX, but it provide a subset of the posix API. At this stage 
>> I've a working version ofit. But since 6.4.2, I've a lot of problems 
>> (dynamic loading doesn't work any more...) with the fact that 
>> postgresmain is call directly instead of the old exec method. BeOS 
>> really don't like to do a lot of thing after a fork and before an 
exec 
>> :=(. 
>>     I would like to know how hard it would be to add the exec call. As 
>> I understand it, I have to get back all global variables and shared 
>> memory and perhaps doing something with sockets/file descriptors ? 
I've 
>> a ready solution for shared memory but I need some help regarding 
the 
>> others points.
>
>You can put back the exec fairly easily.  You just need to pass the
>proper parameters, and change the fork to an exec.  You can look at 
the
>older code that did the exec for an example, and #ifdef the exec() 
back
>into the code.