From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 18:20:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6B137B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9FA43E72 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020917012008.ZTXJ26805.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:20:08 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA97808; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:14:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Daniel Eischen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sem_* API In-Reply-To: <20020917010939.GE86737@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message