Re: light weight user level semaphores

Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-20T02:47:03Z

Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

> > If the new interface can be useful for anything it must allow to
> > implement process-shared POSIX mutexes.
>
> Pardon me the bluntness, but... Why?

Because otherwise there is no reason to even waste a second with this.
At least for me and everybody else who has interest in portable solutions.

I don't care how it's implemented. Look at the code example I posted.
If you can provide an implementation which can implement anonymous
inter-process mutexes then ring again. Until then I'll wait. If you
implement something else I couldn't care less since it's useless for
me.

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