System-wide mutexes and pthreads

Conrad Scott Conrad.Scott@dsl.pipex.com
Wed Jun 12 11:26:00 GMT 2002


Looking at the current pthread implementation on cygwin, it seems that it
doesn't support any system-wide synchronization mechanisms (i.e. none of the
synchronization primitives allow PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED and there are no
named semaphores). Before I go and use win32 semaphores in the cygserver, is
there something I'm missing?

Cheers.

// Conrad





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