Re: Cygwin PostgreSQL postmaster abort problem

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:27:22PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Would someone more intimate with this area of the PostgreSQL source
> critically evaluate this patch and let the list know if there is a better
> way of fixing this problem?

I was able to answer the above by reading the CVS log entry for
postmaster.c, version 1.199:

    Ensure that 'errno' is saved and restored by all signal handlers that
    might change it.  Experimentation shows that the signal handler call
    mechanism does not save/restore errno for you, at least not on Linux
    or HPUX, so this is definitely a real risk.

Sorry for the noise.

Jason

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