"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
>> Tom's recent patch to improve stale lockfile detection
>> included a call to getppid() which doesn't exist on Windows.
>> There is no clean way to implement one (previously discussed
>> on hackers-win32) hence the attach patch simply #ifdefs out the call.
Done. I think this is no real problem for Windows, since its
implementation of the kill(pid,0) check is not going to be fooled
by parent processes anyway.
regards, tom lane