"Jim Jagielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pier Fumagalli wrote:
>>
>>> (IME, pthread-based locks tend to be the fastest, but not many platforms
>>> support that.)
>>
>> IME -> In My Experience ??? :) how about semaphores against file locks?
>>
>
> Sems are faster there too, but have the nasty tendency to leak if there
> are core dumps and cleanups don't occur :(
Craps... :( I was looking into the sem_.... set of functions just to see how
fast they were and how much code there is on Darwin supporting them (there's
just a sys/semaphore.h and references to the functions in libSystem.B.dylib,
but no documentation whatsoever)...
Pier
