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Re: Posix semaphore between different processes
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Posix semaphore between different processes
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:17:58 -0800
> I don't even want to start with this. All you can achieve is a poor
> quality imitation. You cannot work with the SysV stuff alone since
> you cannot implement the namespace handling correctly. Adding some
> regular files to implement the namespace side only means that you open
> all kind of security holes and possibilities to screw up the system.
>
> If you want to have POSIX semaphores implement them in the kernel.
> Jakub has a POSIX message queue implementation, following the concept
> of the POSIX shared memory implementatino (i.e., use it to implement
> the SysV variant and add a pseudo filesystem). You'll have to do the
> same for semaphores.
Are you suggesting we implement POSIX semaphore in kernel, including
the inter-thread one? I guess kernel can tell if 2 tasks belong to
the same process or not.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)