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Date:      Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Brett Schoppert <Brett@Schoppert.com>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: process shared mutex
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0704140225130.21325@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <000601c77deb$355507a0$6728a8c0@M65DEV>
References:  <000601c77deb$355507a0$6728a8c0@M65DEV>

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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Brett Schoppert wrote:

>
> There was talk of adding process shared mutex support into the 6.x release,
> that doesn't appear to have happened.
>
> Is there a current project to add that support into 7.x ?
>
> Specifically, I am looking for the pthread_condattr_setpshared and
> pthread_mutexattr_setpshared interfaces for use by BerkeleyDB.

Will never happen for -6.  It requires that pthread_mutex_t
(and pthread_cond_t) be structs instead of pointers to structs.
This is an ABI change and could only be done in -current.

-- 
DE



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