On 20/11/13 13:46, Kornel Benko wrote:
> I thought about something I programmed in the past.
> Using semaphores on shared memory (over mmap() of file from userdir). But it
> looked like overkill.
You don't need semaphores over shared memory. The same thing can be achieved by
the far easier
pthread_mutex in shared memory after setting PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED.
On Linux it's ok, but I don't know about portability of this across OSes.
> At least lockf() is :POSIX, and it works.
only 1 note: what will happen if LyX crashes or is terminated abruptly?
T.
