Re: Antw: Re: Patch for NetWare support

Peter Eisentraut dijo:

> Ulrich Neumann writes:
>
> > at the moment NetWare doesn't have symbolic links so it's the only
> > chance for me to decide between postmaster, bootstrap or normal
> > interactive backend.
>
> Does it have hard links?  Does it have 'ln' at all?  Otherwise we should
> define $(LN_S) to 'cp' and just make a copy.  That way we avoid patching
> up the code.

Doesn't the cp trick invalidate the fork-no-exec performance
optimization?

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