From 79fcde48b229534fd4a5e07834e5e0e84dd38bee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:51:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Portability fix for old SunOS releases: fflush(NULL) doesn't
work there. Fortunately the postmaster only has stdout and stderr to flush.
---
src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 07e5060f309..8c35f6eeb6c 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.97 1998/09/01 04:31:21 momjian Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.98 1998/11/29 01:51:56 tgl Exp $
*
* NOTES
*
@@ -1289,10 +1289,14 @@ BackendStartup(Port *port)
}
/*
- * Flush all stdio channels just before fork, to avoid double-output
- * problems.
+ * Flush stdio channels just before fork, to avoid double-output problems.
+ * Ideally we'd use fflush(NULL) here, but there are still a few non-ANSI
+ * stdio libraries out there (like SunOS 4.1.x) that coredump if we do.
+ * Presently stdout and stderr are the only stdio output channels used
+ * by the postmaster, so fflush'ing them should be sufficient.
*/
- fflush(NULL);
+ fflush(stdout);
+ fflush(stderr);
if ((pid = fork()) == 0)
{ /* child */
--
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