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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:59:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy), tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC
Message-ID:  <199902112159.NAA95236@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <199902112119.OAA10970@usr06.primenet.com>

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:What about a negative initial value setting?
:
:I used this technique on UnixWare to implement an RPC interlock
:mechanism that involved setting things up in shared memory in one
:process, and processing in another; roughly, the following states:
:
:
: 99>                       ,----.
:                           |    |
:                           |    |
:                      ,----'    |
:            ,----.    |         |
:            |    |    |         |
:            |    |    |         |
:  0>        |    |    |         |
:            |    `----'         |
:            |                   |
:            |                   |
:-99>    ----'                   `-----
:        listen   call      reset
:	     setup    return
:
:I had to implement it a different way on FreeBSD because the

    What does POSIX have to say about it?

					-Matt

					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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