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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
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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