Re: [HACKERS] Question on win32 semaphore simulation

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Well we did have a bug report by Peter Brant, and a test by him with the
> >> patch that fixes it, so it seems it should be applied.  The URLs I
> >> posted had that information.
>
> > Correction.  It only goes into 8.0.X and 8.1.X.  CVS HEAD has a
> > rewritten file.
>
> That seems a bit scary --- patching stable branches with a patch that
> will get zero testing in HEAD?  I think some more testing besides
> Peter's would be smart first.  What if the patch behaves differently
> on different versions of Windows, for instance?

We can wait for someone else to report the problem.  I think it only
happened on Win2003 SP1.


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