Fixing Posix semaphores

[Julian Elischer]

Joe Kelsey wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 10:11 -0800, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
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>>--- Joe Kelsey <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us> wrote:
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>>>> BTW -how would
>>>>you deal with a diskless workstation running
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Freebsd?
>>>
>>>Why does this matter?  If the system uses NFS, then
>>>all bets are off.
>>>If the system contains a FreeBSD file system, thenit
>>>works.  What other
>>>choice could there ever be?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>something like boot from flash/eeprom. I don't know
>>about freebsd as an instance -but many networking
>>devices do use netbsd that way. For the most part, you
>>wouldn't want to create a file on such a system.
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>Read-only versus other options have absolutely no bearing on this
>problem.  Unnamed posix semaphores work just fine in this case.  I have
>built lots of FreeBSD systems on flash with no problems.  This "fantasy"
>of a problem has no bearing on the issue I want to discuss.
>
>I would argue that I am probably the only person in the entire universe
>who cares about named posix semaphores.  Everyone else seems to just
>want to deal with unnamed seamphores and let it go at that.  Therefore,
>I declare that named semaphores are my personal problem and when I
>achieve the solution I want, I will make it available and then you can
>decide if it matters to anyone else in the world.
>

Well if you come up with a good solution it is definitly a candidate for 
inclusion.
It'll be evaluated then..

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>/Joe
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