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-rw-r--r--src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index f3ff878db61..fbf5a58148e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c,v 1.47 2006/07/14 05:28:28 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c,v 1.47.2.1 2007/07/02 20:12:00 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -224,6 +224,18 @@ PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2)
return false;
/*
+ * Some Linux kernel versions (in fact, all of them as of July 2007)
+ * sometimes return EIDRM when EINVAL is correct. The Linux kernel
+ * actually does not have any internal state that would justify
+ * returning EIDRM, so we can get away with assuming that EIDRM is
+ * equivalent to EINVAL on that platform.
+ */
+#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_EIDRM_BUG
+ if (errno == EIDRM)
+ return false;
+#endif
+
+ /*
* Otherwise, we had better assume that the segment is in use. The
* only likely case is EIDRM, which implies that the segment has been
* IPC_RMID'd but there are still processes attached to it.