[FreeBSD 6] semctl broken compared to 4-STABLE ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>> Right, but why are they doing it *consistently* in FreeBSD 6.x, when they
>> never did it in FreeBSD 4.x?  I have postmaster processes running on the
>> FreeBSD box as far back as November 27th, 2005 ... and have *never*
>> experienced this problem ... so it isn't PostgreSQL that has changed,
>> something in FreeBSD has changed :(
>
> You'll need to do some debugging to find out which of the two causes
> of EINVAL are true here (or some undocumented cause).

'k, right now, the checks in PostgreSQL are just seeing if the result of 
semctl < 0 ... i see from the man page what 'two values' of EINVAL you are 
referring to ... but, if they both return the same ERRNO, how do I 
determine which of the two is the cause of the problem? :(

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