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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2008-09-23 20:35:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2008-09-23 20:35:38 +0000 |
| commit | 5f7b25d5d594c4cd8a766b8137a7673769ce1fa7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9acee41d0425d84685e246e2344ec6e321ff11ee /src | |
| parent | 5a8cb50e4f3ad0ec70af2068b902b8fab29016e5 (diff) | |
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Add comment about the use of EXEC_BACKEND.
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c index 51f766275bb..4de81673460 100644 --- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c +++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ * * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.564 2008/09/23 09:20:36 heikki Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.565 2008/09/23 20:35:38 momjian Exp $ * * NOTES * @@ -3286,6 +3286,10 @@ postmaster_forkexec(int argc, char *argv[]) /* * backend_forkexec -- fork/exec off a backend process * + * Some operating systems (WIN32) don't have fork() so we have to simulate + * it by storing parameters that need to be passed to the child and + * then create a new child process. + * * returns the pid of the fork/exec'd process, or -1 on failure */ static pid_t |