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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:24:10 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD 6] semctl broken compared to 4-STABLE ...
Message-ID:  <20060402172021.B947@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060402195657.GA57843@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060402144704.S947@ganymede.hub.org> <20060402191519.GA56599@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060402162612.N947@ganymede.hub.org> <20060402193808.GA57127@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060402165234.Y947@ganymede.hub.org> <20060402195657.GA57843@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>> Right, but why are they doing it *consistently* in FreeBSD 6.x, when they
>> never did it in FreeBSD 4.x?  I have postmaster processes running on the
>> FreeBSD box as far back as November 27th, 2005 ... and have *never*
>> experienced this problem ... so it isn't PostgreSQL that has changed,
>> something in FreeBSD has changed :(
>
> You'll need to do some debugging to find out which of the two causes
> of EINVAL are true here (or some undocumented cause).

'k, right now, the checks in PostgreSQL are just seeing if the result of 
semctl < 0 ... i see from the man page what 'two values' of EINVAL you are 
referring to ... but, if they both return the same ERRNO, how do I 
determine which of the two is the cause of the problem? :(

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664



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