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From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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Subject: Re: POSIX semaphores?
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > at configure stage (looking for sem_init()) and then compiled program
> > fails with "Unknown system call" diagnostic.
> 
> They must be trying to use shared semaphores which currently don't
> work across processes (unless they are forked and semaphore is

No, they just look for sem_init() (which is in libc) without real testing 
that it works.

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