Subject: Re: Building nathanw_sa branch?
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/2002 12:11:12
"Michael K. Sanders" <msanders@confusion.net> writes:

> Nathan J. Williams writes:
> >I hope so, but to be honest, my pthread lib just hasn't been tested
> >much with "real" threaded applications. I've been doing some such
> >testing myself, but haven't tried Apache yet.
> 
> Has any work been done for POSIX semaphores?  The test program I'm 
> trying to get working requires those as well.

You mean sem_init(), semget(), sem_post(), sem_wait() and friends?

No, I don't think anyone has attacked that yet. What program needs
them?

(BTW, I tried building Apache-current, and while the thread stuff
seemed to build, it blew out on the absence of sigwait()).

        - Nathan