Re: Back-patch use of unnamed POSIX semaphores for Linux?

Tom Lane wrote:

> Hmm ... after further experimentation, I still can't get this version of
> systemd (231) to do anything evil.  It turns out that Fedora ships it with
> KillUserProcesses turned off by default, and maybe having that on is a
> prerequisite for the other behavior?  But that doesn't make a lot of sense
> because we'd never be seeing the reports of databases moaning about lost
> semaphores if the processes got killed first.  Anyway, I see nothing bad
> happening if KillUserProcesses is off, while if it's on then the database
> gets shut down reasonably politely via SIGTERM.
> 
> Color me confused ... maybe systemd's behavior has changed?

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