Re: WIN32 native ... lets start?!?

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> Maybe Vince could set up a Win32 porting project page, and since we now seem
> to have a few interested parties willing to code on a native Win32 version,
> they should have their own project page.  This could make communication
> easier for them and make sure the project doesn't die...

Might be an idea to create a pgsql-hackers-win32 list also?  Or just
pgsql-win32?


>
> Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Joerg
> > Hessdoerfer
> > Sent: Friday, 17 May 2002 4:36 AM
> > To: Magnus Naeslund(f)
> > Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] WIN32 native ... lets start?!?
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 16 May 2002 22:10, you wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > What is the biggest problem here?
> > > The Shmem/IPC stuff, or the fork() stuff?
> > > I'm think that we could do a fork() implementation in usermode
> > by copying
> > > the memory allocations. How fast that would be regarding the context
> > > switches, i don't know, but i'm willing to experiment some to see how
> > > feesible this is...
> > >
> > > Anyone tried this before?
> > >
> > > Magnus
> > >
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> > The problem is not the fork() call itself, this has been done (MinGW and
> > cygwin I know of, possibly others) but the speed of fork() on
> > windows, it's
> > creepingly slow (due to usermode copy, I assume ;-).
> >
> > IPC needs to be done, I'm just about to start...
> >
> > Greetings,
> >     Joerg
> > --
> > Leading SW developer  - S.E.A GmbH
> > Mail: joerg.hessdoerfer@sea-gmbh.com
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