Re: light weight user level semaphores

Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-19T21:20:04Z

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> > I fail to see how this works across processes.
>
> It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed.

No, the point is that FS_create is *not* the one creating the shared
mapping. The user is explicitly doing this her/himself.

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