POSIX semaphores?

Daniel Eischen eischen at vigrid.com
Fri Jan 30 09:51:19 PST 2004


On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > 
> > > Could anybody enlighten me, please?
> > > 
> > > 1) What is current status of POSIX semaphores? Are they at the production
> > > quality? Are they better implemented than SYSV ones?
> > > 2) What is kernel option to turn them on? Why I don't find it in NOTES or
> > > GENERIC?
> > 
> > You need option P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES.  It's in sys/conf/NOTES.
> 
> It's also documented in the sem(4) man page.  sem(4) documents this option and
> tells you what to kldload if you haven't enabled this option in the kernel.

I don't see sem.ko in /boot/kernel/.  Is it built as a module?

-- 
Dan



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