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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:29:56 +0300
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: POSIX semaphores?
Message-ID:  <20040130152955.GB60027@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10401300902100.6366-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
References:  <20040130135802.GA57662@nagual.pp.ru> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10401300902100.6366-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > at configure stage (looking for sem_init()) and then compiled program
> > fails with "Unknown system call" diagnostic.
> 
> They must be trying to use shared semaphores which currently don't
> work across processes (unless they are forked and semaphore is

No, they just look for sem_init() (which is in libc) without real testing 
that it works.

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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