On Fri, 17 May 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > Maybe Vince could set up a Win32 porting project page, and since we now seem > to have a few interested parties willing to code on a native Win32 version, > they should have their own project page. This could make communication > easier for them and make sure the project doesn't die...
Might be an idea to create a pgsql-hackers-win32 list also? Or just pgsql-win32? > > Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joerg > > Hessdoerfer > > Sent: Friday, 17 May 2002 4:36 AM > > To: Magnus Naeslund(f) > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] WIN32 native ... lets start?!? > > > > > > On Thursday 16 May 2002 22:10, you wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > What is the biggest problem here? > > > The Shmem/IPC stuff, or the fork() stuff? > > > I'm think that we could do a fork() implementation in usermode > > by copying > > > the memory allocations. How fast that would be regarding the context > > > switches, i don't know, but i'm willing to experiment some to see how > > > feesible this is... > > > > > > Anyone tried this before? > > > > > > Magnus > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > > > > The problem is not the fork() call itself, this has been done (MinGW and > > cygwin I know of, possibly others) but the speed of fork() on > > windows, it's > > creepingly slow (due to usermode copy, I assume ;-). > > > > IPC needs to be done, I'm just about to start... > > > > Greetings, > > Joerg > > -- > > Leading SW developer - S.E.A GmbH > > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > WWW: http://www.sea-gmbh.com > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
