Claudio Natoli wrote: > > Hi all, > > just a small note to anyone who is interested in the status of this port. > > Firstly, the fork/exec changes are coming along well. The first patch, for > fork/exec'ing of backends has been accepted and applied. A second patch, for > fork/exec'ing of the remainder of the postgres process has just been > submitted for review. Two patches (which are essentially already completed) > will follow this; the first to allow some further rearrangement of the > postmaster fork/execs in preparation for the Win32 CreateProcess calls, and > the final patch will place the actual CreateProcess calls into the > code-base. > > It is reasonable to expect that we will have this changes in place within a > few weeks. > > At that point, we will be within striking distance of a Win32 port. The > "only" remaining barriers to a running, albeit "imperfect", implementation > are: > * signals (non-trivial, to say the least, but encouraging to see > discussion occurring in this regard), > * a workable pipe replacement
I don't have 'pipe' mentioned on the win32 patch. Can you give details? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
