Pls sanity check my semtimedop(2) implementation

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 21 20:56:45 UTC 2008


On Friday 18 July 2008 12:27:05 pm Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Michael B Allen wrote:
> 
> *snip*
> 
> > But I'll keep it in mind for the future. I don't recall why I chose
> > System V semaphores originally. I think process-shared semantics in
> > the POSIX implementations where not mature at the time. I would love
> > to move away from System V semaphores. It's all too easy to leak them
> > and trying to clean up on restart is dangerous.
> 
> It is my understanding that process-shared is not currently supported at
> least in 7.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is any intention of this being eventually
> supported?  I have needed this in the past but do not need it at the
> moment.  It would be nice to have someday.

There aren't currently plans, no.

-- 
John Baldwin


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