Re: FW: Win32 fix for miscinit.c

Ugh. *sigh*

I wondered idly if we might be able to make a safe assumption about the
staleness of the lockfile based on (possibly not very portably)
comparing its mtime with the system boot time.

cheers

andrew

Dave Page wrote:

>More haste, less speed...
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>Patch attached this time!
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>/D
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dave Page
>>Sent: 04 October 2004 14:41
>>To: PostgreSQL-patches
>>Subject: Win32 fix for miscinit.c
>>
>>Tom's recent patch to improve stale lockfile detection
>>included a call to getppid() which doesn't exist on Windows.
>>There is no clean way to implement one (previously discussed
>>on hackers-win32) hence the attach patch simply #ifdefs out the call.
>>
>>Please apply ASAP as the win32 build is currently broken.
>>
>>Regards, Dave
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