From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 31 16:40:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24912 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:40:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ppp2172.on.sympatico.ca [206.172.244.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA24904 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:40:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gardner@localhost) by localhost (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA00174 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 19:40:03 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 19:40:03 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.3-beta [p0] on FreeBSD Reply-To: gbuchanan@sympatico.ca From: Gardner To: Subject: mset(), mclear(), msleep() and mwakeup(): Where? Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 4.4BSD mmap(MAP_HASSEMAPHORE) supposedly gives the ability to use shared memory semaphores via mset(), mclear(), msleep() and mwakeup(). On page 491 and 492 Uresh Vahalia says that I can do these things. Marshall McKusick and friends are silent on the subject. So are the man pages, and find /usr/src/sys -name \*.\[ch] -exec grep msleep {} \; -print says nothing either. Is Vahalia lying to me? ============================================ Gardner Buchanan Ottawa, On