From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 10:58:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D436C37C169 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doc@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 13789 invoked by uid 1074); 27 Jun 2000 17:58:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:58:46 -0700 (PDT) From: David Daugherty X-Sender: doc@sloth To: Alan Batie Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: semaphores In-Reply-To: <20000627102330.49662@aahz.passedge.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Alan Batie wrote: > I get: > lockfile(1) - conditional semaphore-file creator > ipcrm(1) - remove the specified message queues, semaphore sets, > and shared memory segments > semctl(2) - control operations on a semaphore set > semget(2) - obtain a semaphore id > semop(2) - atomic array of operations on a semaphore set That's really unusual. I would have thought that the implementation of semaphores would have been part of the posix standard. Maybe not, I'm still a Unix/BSD newbie. David Software Engineer - NetManage Work email: david.daugherty@netmanage.com Home email: doc@wcug.wwu.edu ICQ 21106703 Washington State Resident To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message