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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Posix Semaphores in -CURRENT
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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


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