Re: [HACKERS] How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

[Peter Eisentraut]

Alfred Perlstein writes:

> Seriously, there's some dispute on the type that 'shm_nattch' is,
> under Solaris it's "shmatt_t" (unsigned long afaik), under FreeBSD
> it's 'short' (i should fix this. :)).

What I don't like is that my /usr/include/sys/shm.h (through other
headers) has:

typedef unsigned long int shmatt_t;

/* Data structure describing a set of semaphores.  */
struct shmid_ds
  {
    struct ipc_perm shm_perm;           /* operation permission struct */
    size_t shm_segsz;                   /* size of segment in bytes */
    __time_t shm_atime;                 /* time of last shmat() */
    unsigned long int __unused1;
    __time_t shm_dtime;                 /* time of last shmdt() */
    unsigned long int __unused2;
    __time_t shm_ctime;                 /* time of last change by shmctl() */
    unsigned long int __unused3;
    __pid_t shm_cpid;                   /* pid of creator */
    __pid_t shm_lpid;                   /* pid of last shmop */
    shmatt_t shm_nattch;                /* number of current attaches */
    unsigned long int __unused4;
    unsigned long int __unused5;
  };

whereas /usr/src/linux/include/shm.h has:

struct shmid_ds {
        struct ipc_perm         shm_perm;       /* operation perms */
        int                     shm_segsz;      /* size of segment (bytes) */
        __kernel_time_t         shm_atime;      /* last attach time */
        __kernel_time_t         shm_dtime;      /* last detach time */
        __kernel_time_t         shm_ctime;      /* last change time */
        __kernel_ipc_pid_t      shm_cpid;       /* pid of creator */
        __kernel_ipc_pid_t      shm_lpid;       /* pid of last operator */
        unsigned short          shm_nattch;     /* no. of current attaches */
        unsigned short          shm_unused;     /* compatibility */
        void                    *shm_unused2;   /* ditto - used by DIPC */
        void                    *shm_unused3;   /* unused */
};


Not only note the shm_nattch type, but also shm_segsz, and the "unused"
fields in between.  I don't know a thing about the Linux kernel sources,
but this doesn't seem right.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut      [EMAIL PROTECTED]       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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