Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of lock_kernel()?(Was:Strange

Alan Cox
2000-11-04T20:43:47Z

> sysv semaphores have a very unfortunate negative feature -- if the admin
> kill -9's the server (impatient admins do this all the time) then you end
> up leaving a semaphore lying around. sysvsem don't have the usual unix

Umm they have SEM_UNDO. Its a case of deeper magic