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Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 02:06:14 +0200
From: "Lucian Adrian Grijincu" <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
To: "Guenter Knauf" <fuankg@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Interprocess semaphores and read/write locks
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On Nov 3, 2007 1:55 AM, Guenter Knauf <fuankg@apache.org> wrote:
> >> Hi Lucian,
> > Just to be sure I'm interpreting this right: for this semaphore to be
> > used in multiple processes it must lie in a shared memory area, isn't
> > it?
> http://developer.novell.com/documentation/libc/libc_vol2/index.html?page=/documentation/libc/libc_vol2/data/akqakys.html
>
> HTH

helped a lot :)
http://developer.novell.com/documentation/libc/libc_vol2/index.html?page=/documentation/libc/libc_vol2/data/al8dfgi.html

It seems to support SysV semaphores (or at least it's documented to do so).

Thanks,
Lucian