process shared mutex

[Daniel Eischen]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Brett Schoppert wrote:

>
> There was talk of adding process shared mutex support into the 6.x release,
> that doesn't appear to have happened.
>
> Is there a current project to add that support into 7.x ?
>
> Specifically, I am looking for the pthread_condattr_setpshared and
> pthread_mutexattr_setpshared interfaces for use by BerkeleyDB.

Will never happen for -6.  It requires that pthread_mutex_t
(and pthread_cond_t) be structs instead of pointers to structs.
This is an ABI change and could only be done in -current.

-- 
DE