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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