sharing mutexes

[Petri Helenius]

Brooks Davis wrote:

>
>That depends on what you mean.  You can use sysv semaphores between
>processes, but their API is problematic in some applications.
>
>Could you explain what you want to do in more detail?
>  
>
I have multiple processes running threaded applications which would like 
to do 64bit wide atomic arithmetic, which if I understand correctly can 
only be achieved either via IPC (having a master process to do all the 
stuff) or sharing a mutex somehow. And as far as I understand, mutexes 
are process-local by default.

Pete