Re: FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

Terry Yapt wrote:

> I am looking for system errors and nothing is there.  But I have a lot of
> messages on system APP errors.  The error is the same every ten seconds or
> so.
>
> This is the main error:
> * FATAL:  could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01D80000):
> Invalid argument

Please run "ipcs" on a command line window and paste the results.

I see a minor problem in that code: we are invoking two system calls
(shmget and shmat) but the log does not say which one failed.  However
in this case it seems only shmget could be returning EINVAL.

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