On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Ivan Voras<ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On a completely unrelated subject I was reading about PHP APC cache > where they have the same need - cross-process locking with locks > embedded in data structures and they have adopted userland spinlock code > from PostgreSQL: > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/3288293/brian-shireapc-facebook > > (spin)locks are not the same as sempahores but maybe it will help the OP > or anyone else trying to implement this feature: > > http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/pecl/apc/pgsql_s_lock.h?revision=3.4&view=markup > > http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/pecl/apc/pgsql_s_lock.c?revision=3.3&view=markup
Thanks, Ivan. I'll take a better look at this after our first release, which is due in a couple of weeks. Right now the team efforts aren't focused on portability, so it's a low priority issue, but something we'd definitely like to have in the future. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
