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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:17:07 -0700
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:57:30AM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
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> Is there currently a supported way to share mutexes across processes?

That depends on what you mean.  You can use sysv semaphores between
processes, but their API is problematic in some applications.

Could you explain what you want to do in more detail?

-- Brooks

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