Tom Lane wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@tocr.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Mind you, I find the SysV APIs uselessly baroque too, but there is one
> >> feature that we have to have that is not in mmap(): the ability to
> >> detect other processes attached to a shmem block.
>
> > Didn't we solve this problem on Windows?
>
> Not terribly well --- see active thread on -hackers.
We could allocate a small shared memory area to solve this and use
mmap() for the other shared memory usage.
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