Re: light weight user level semaphores

[Linus Torvalds]

On 19 Apr 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Looks good to me. Anybody want to try this out and test some benchmarks?
>
> I fail to see how this works across processes.

It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed.

For threads, you don't need anything special.

For fork()'d helper stuff, you'd use MAP_ANON | MAP_SHARED.

For execve(), you need shm shared memory or MAP_SHARED on a file.

It all depends on your needs.

                Linus

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