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diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index a946b8d0134..ef4ee2fce6e 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 1.42 2004/12/31 22:00:30 pgsql Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c,v 1.42.4.1 2007/07/02 20:12:11 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -223,6 +223,17 @@ PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2)
if (errno == EACCES)
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.