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Subject: Re: controlling the flavor of lock used by APR
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From: Jeff Trawick <trawickj@bellsouth.net>
Date: 30 Nov 2000 16:24:07 -0500
In-Reply-To: rbb@covalent.net's message of "Thu,
 30 Nov 2000 12:45:33 -0800 (PST)"
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rbb@covalent.net writes:

> > As far as the current code to check for when to use SysV sems, I think
> > we should:
> > 
> > 1) change the test to check for the presence of semctl() or semop(),
> >    not the presence of union semun
> > 
> > 2) move the AC_IFALLYES() for USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE to a point *after*
> >    the fcntl() check since fcntl() is what we have used in the past on
> >    almost all platforms and IMHO we should keep using it except for
> >    platforms where we have specific information represented in hints.m4
> 
> This would be moving backwards.  This test was originally after the FCNTL
> test, but we moved it, I can't remember why.  Please look this up before
> making this change.

of course you're right about the order!

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