{"id":411,"date":"2005-05-24T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2005-05-24T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T05:30:09","slug":"dont-you-just-love-being-compatible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/24\/dont-you-just-love-being-compatible\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t you just love being compatible?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\/* Force server down. kill all connections and threads and exit *\/<\/p>\n

#if defined(OS2) || defined(__NETWARE__)
\nextern \"C\" void kill_server(int sig_ptr)
\n#define RETURN_FROM_KILL_SERVER DBUG_VOID_RETURN
\n#elif !defined(__WIN__)
\nstatic void *kill_server(void *sig_ptr)
\n#define RETURN_FROM_KILL_SERVER DBUG_RETURN(0)
\n#else
\nstatic void __cdecl kill_server(int sig_ptr)
\n#define RETURN_FROM_KILL_SERVER DBUG_VOID_RETURN
\n#endif
\n{
\n DBUG_ENTER(\"kill_server\");<\/code><\/p>\n

(from sql\/mysqld.cc)<\/p>\n

There just has to be a better way to do this….<\/p>\n

maybe we need a kill_server which is platform defined (e.g. in a mythical win32.cc, netware.cc or generic_sane_unix.cc) and the generic _kill_server in mysqld.cc? possibly some variation of… some platforms seem to do strange things.<\/p>\n

i don’t know. it just doesn’t look that clean to me…. maybe i need more coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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