Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:45:39 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Fred Yankowski Cc: Riaan Labuschagne , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygrunsrv-0.94-1 Message-ID: <20010712114538.G453@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: Fred Yankowski , Riaan Labuschagne , cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010712101949.A96400@enteract.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fred, On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:19:49AM -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: > This problem happens because Cygwin sends SIGHUP to each process > during NT shutdown. The postmaster process reacts to SIGHUP by > starting to reload its configuration files (as designed) and this > somehow jams up a concurrent attempt to shutdown the postmaster. I've > got a simple patch to the PostgreSQL code to have it ignore SIGHUP > when built for Cygwin -- in both the postmaster and any postgresql > processes -- but I haven't found the time to pursue a better solution > or to champion inclusion of this patch into the distributed PostgreSQL. Please post your patch -- I've been waiting with bated breath since you first mentioned it. :,) I will be quite willing to champion it (or a better solution, if one can be devised) for inclusion into PostgreSQL CVS. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: 732.264.8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: 732.264.8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/