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From: Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@arnor.net>
To: "Randazzo, Michael" <RANDAZZO@ddc-web.com>
Cc: "'Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu'" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Kernel 2.x POSIX Compliance/Conformance...
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:51:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075927877.3225.73.camel@moria.arnor.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89760D3F308BD41183B000508BAFAC4104B16F38@DDCNYNTD>

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 12:18, Randazzo, Michael wrote:
> Where are the kernel calls defined for locks and semaphores?
> 
> How come the kernel headers don't define Posix.4 
> semaphores (_POSIX_SEMAPHROES) or Posix itself
> (_POSIX_VERSION is undefined)
> 

I think you need to read "Linux Device Drivers".  If you don't want to
buy it, you can read it for free online.

http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/

Chapter 9, pages 284-286 discusses locking and atomic operations.


-- 
Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@arnor.net>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-04 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-04 20:18 Kernel 2.x POSIX Compliance/Conformance Randazzo, Michael
2004-02-04 20:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-04 20:51 ` Torrey Hoffman [this message]
2004-02-04 21:02 ` J.A. Magallon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-04 20:22 Randazzo, Michael
2004-02-04 21:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-04 19:44 Randazzo, Michael
2004-02-04 19:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-04 19:30 Randazzo, Michael
2004-02-04 19:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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