From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 09:22:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09299 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:22:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09284 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:22:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA12328; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:22:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:22:12 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: "Nguyen, My" cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: System V semaphores supported? In-Reply-To: <199901061710.JAA19892@ncr-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Nguyen, My wrote: > My main question is, > Does FreeBSD 4.0 support System V semaphores? > If so, are there libraries which needs to be linked or special > installation/configuration needed to get semaphores to work properly? 4.0 won't be out for a year or so, I expect SYSV semaphores will still be supported at that time :) You need to build a new kernel with SYSV semaphore and probably messages and shared memory enabled. add options SYSVSHM options SYSVSEM options SYSVMSG to your kernel config file and rebuild it. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message