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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mset(), mclear(), msleep() and mwakeup(): Where? Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 12:12:46 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32F3798E.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> References: <5cm3nr$o3k$1@news1.sympatico.ca> <5cu45c$6fc@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34958 J Wunsch wrote: > > 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. :-/ > If there is enough demand for them, we could include them in a future version of FreeBSD. John dyson@freebsd.org