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This is a Linux kernel bug that apparently exists in every extant kernel version: sometimes shmctl() will fail with EIDRM when EINVAL is correct. We were assuming that EIDRM indicates a possible conflict with pre-existing backends, and refusing to start the postmaster when this happens. Fortunately, there does not seem to be any case where Linux can legitimately return EIDRM (it doesn't track shmem segments in a way that would allow that), so we can get away with just assuming that EIDRM means EINVAL on this platform. Per reports from Michael Fuhr and Jon Lapham --- it's a bit surprising we have not seen more reports, actually.
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15 lines
763 B
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/* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/port/linux.h,v 1.43 2007/07/02 20:11:55 tgl Exp $ */
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/*
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* As of July 2007, all known versions of the Linux kernel will sometimes
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* return EIDRM for a shmctl() operation when EINVAL is correct (it happens
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* when the low-order 15 bits of the supplied shm ID match the slot number
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* assigned to a newer shmem segment). We deal with this by assuming that
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* EIDRM means EINVAL in PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(). This is reasonably safe
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* since in fact Linux has no excuse for ever returning EIDRM; it doesn't
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* track removed segments in a way that would allow distinguishing them from
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* private ones. But someday that code might get upgraded, and we'd have
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* to have a kernel version test here.
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*/
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#define HAVE_LINUX_EIDRM_BUG
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