Re: POSIX semaphore for GNU/Hurd

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:06:08PM +0100, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> While trying to compile abiword, and so gnome-vfs, on GNU/Hurd, I've
> seen that it uses POSIX semaphore, that we don't implement yet.
> 
> So, I've done an implementation of POSIX semaphores using a pthread_mutex
> and a pthread_cond. I didn't test it yet, but it compiles, and I'm pretty
> confident in it (but I'm sure of the correct behavior of the destroy
> function if some threads are locked on the semaphore).
The behavior is undefined ;)
> 
> Anyway, here it is. I think it should be merged in libpthreads as soon
> as someone reviewed it.
I tried to make it return errno and be async-cancel resistant.

Anyway the header should be basically the same, just the implementation
changes a bit.

-- 
Michal Suchanek
hramrach@centrum.cz

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