Re: [CYGWIN] ipc-daemon

Tom,
Peter,

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:05:25PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:43:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > If you can detect that cygipc is not running, then ENOSYS seems the
> > best choice for reporting that.  (ENOSPC would be misleading too.)
>
> Thanks for your feedback.  I will take this to the Cygwin list and see
> what happens.

I happy to report that the above has been accomplished:

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-11/msg00025.html

Hopefully, the Cygwin initdb and postmaster hang posts will be a thing
of the past.  Unfortunately, they probably will be replaced by questions
like:

    Why does initdb fail with "IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(...) failed:
    Function not implemented?"

Jason

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