From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 19:41:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F3C16A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:41:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F02E43D64 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:41:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155287A403; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:41:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41C09387.9040506@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:41:59 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Kelsey References: <20041214181128.97826.qmail@web52708.mail.yahoo.com> <1103053399.30309.263.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> In-Reply-To: <1103053399.30309.263.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: kamalp@acm.org Subject: Re: Fixing Posix semaphores X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:41:59 -0000 Joe Kelsey wrote: >On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 10:11 -0800, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > > >>--- Joe Kelsey wrote: >> >> >>>> BTW -how would >>>>you deal with a diskless workstation running >>>> >>>> >>>Freebsd? >>> >>>Why does this matter? If the system uses NFS, then >>>all bets are off. >>>If the system contains a FreeBSD file system, thenit >>>works. What other >>>choice could there ever be? >>> >>> >>> >>something like boot from flash/eeprom. I don't know >>about freebsd as an instance -but many networking >>devices do use netbsd that way. For the most part, you >>wouldn't want to create a file on such a system. >> >> > >Read-only versus other options have absolutely no bearing on this >problem. Unnamed posix semaphores work just fine in this case. I have >built lots of FreeBSD systems on flash with no problems. This "fantasy" >of a problem has no bearing on the issue I want to discuss. > >I would argue that I am probably the only person in the entire universe >who cares about named posix semaphores. Everyone else seems to just >want to deal with unnamed seamphores and let it go at that. Therefore, >I declare that named semaphores are my personal problem and when I >achieve the solution I want, I will make it available and then you can >decide if it matters to anyone else in the world. > Well if you come up with a good solution it is definitly a candidate for inclusion. It'll be evaluated then.. > >/Joe > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >