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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.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: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 12:02:02 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 35 Message-ID: <32F4C88A.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <5cm3nr$o3k$1@news1.sympatico.ca> <5cu45c$6fc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32F3798E.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <5d2dn6$9st$1@news1.sympatico.ca> 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:34948 Gardner Buchanan wrote: > > Are you saying that they could just be brought across from Lite2? > or that they would have to be built from scratch? > I could write them from scratch (I am one of the FreeBSD kernel/VM people.) Lite/2 doesn't have them :-(. > > If they are not actually part of 4.4BSD, where did Vahalia get the > idea from? > There was a document in the Net/2 or 4.4Lite release (forget which one) that described the interface. > > I assumed that If they didn't exist in FreeBSD that they > were at least thought out and implemented in some research version. > There might already be. > > If not, and > Vahalia is dreaming in technicolour, then importing the facility > from Plan9 or Herd or wherever seems a reasonable course. > As long as the API is nice. > > Right now, I just want the locks. > You could use the SYSV semaphores :-(. John