Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:49:51 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POSIX semaphores? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10401301249250.12176-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20040130152036.GA67964@crodrigues.org>
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > > > > Could anybody enlighten me, please? > > > > > > 1) What is current status of POSIX semaphores? Are they at the production > > > quality? Are they better implemented than SYSV ones? > > > 2) What is kernel option to turn them on? Why I don't find it in NOTES or > > > GENERIC? > > > > You need option P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES. It's in sys/conf/NOTES. > > It's also documented in the sem(4) man page. sem(4) documents this option and > tells you what to kldload if you haven't enabled this option in the kernel. I don't see sem.ko in /boot/kernel/. Is it built as a module? -- Dan
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