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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:

>
> Is there currently a supported way to share mutexes across processes?

No, pshared mutexes, CVs, and semaphores are not
implemented.  We will probably add them to FreeBSD-6.0,
but they will break ABI and require a libc version
bump.

-- 
Dan