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From: Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:34:31 +0300
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Subject: Re: Unnamed POSIX shared semaphores
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote:
[...]
  Thank you all for your swift replies. It seems to indeed work for
forked processes. The app at $work (written on and for Linux)
transported an unnamed semaphore over a POSIX shared memory object.
I'll probably make it a named semaphore and only send its name over
the shared memory space.

Regards,
Vlad