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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:14:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sem_* API
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209161812030.96232-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020917010939.GE86737@elvis.mu.org>

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On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> 
> Does it make sense for these to actually be in libc?  This is
> because they can be used to inter-process syncronization, not
> just between threads...

that depends on the standard.. is teh posix standard that 
defines these defining then outside the scope of threads?
If so then they should be defined outside of threads.

Is there a 'nonblocking' way of using these?
because libc_r can not block of course..





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