Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:11:30 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: real POSIX.1b semaphores |
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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@myware.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: 21 Nov 1996 00:29:16 +0100
One point still not clear is whether it's worth to create a pseudo filesystem for the named semaphores. I would vote for it and the standard author encourage this use. It would allow easy maintenance of the semaphore namespace. Keeping all names in a plane namespace (i.e., treating / as a normal character) would be simpler but once the semaphores are implemented I would think hundreds of semaphores used at the same time is easily possible. How do you like a directory with hundreds of entries? The POSIX people gave us this mean of structurization so me should use it.
I think we should as well; whatever solution we choose should also deal with the other named entities that POSIX.1b provides (message queues, shared memory segments, etc.)
- Ted
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