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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mset(), mclear(), msleep() and mwakeup(): Where?
Date: 1 Feb 1997 00:53:00 GMT
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gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan) wrote:

> 4.4BSD mmap(MAP_HASSEMAPHORE) supposedly gives the ability to use
> shared memory semaphores via mset(), mclear(), msleep() and mwakeup().
> On page 491 and 492 Uresh Vahalia says that I can do these things.

Seems Vahalia wrote about a future version of 4.4BSD. :-/

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