Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:09:31 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Posix Semaphores in -CURRENT Message-ID: <200212131709.gBDH9VUq017723@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021213120247.A3188@attbi.com> References: <3DF8F08E.8050809@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3DFA0771.BDFC87A8@mindspring.com> <3DFA0DAC.2070801@mail.flyingcroc.net> <20021213120247.A3188@attbi.com>
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<<On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:47 -0500, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> said: > So apart from the leading slash character, nothing is mentioned about > embedded slashes in the semaphore name. What's the right behavior > for FreeBSD then? The reason why the standard is written that way was to allow for RTOS implementations which do not have a filesystem. A quality implementation should represent these objects in the filesystem when this is possible. The semaphore itself need not reside in the filesystem; the path name could be used only as a rendezvous point. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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