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From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: test&set? Semaphores?
Date: 19 Oct 1995 21:02:02 +0100
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In article <460ivi$3j9@netnews.upenn.edu>,
Darrel Herbst <dherbst@gradient.cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
>Doing a man -k with semaphore points me to the System V IPC -- but
>ipcs tells me that SysV IPC is not enabled on my machine -- is it a
>separate package, and is that what I should be looking for?
You need to recompile your kernel. Look in /sys/i386/conf/LINT for
descriptions of the various options available to enable SYS V IPC.
Note: AFAIK, the FreeBSD SYS V IPC implimentation is NOT complete. You
may have problems.
Gary