Aaron Bannert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:39:41PM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> > "sem_open("/ApR.whatever", O_CREAT, 0644,1)" returns ENOSYS on Linux
> > (2.2.12 kernel). I'll try to add an autoconf check for that.
> >
> > Beyond the issue mentioned above, why is a new lock mechanism
> > suddenly so high in the priority list? Aren't we throwing away a lot
> > of past experience (1.3 and 2.0)?
>
> Posix semaphores appear to be the only non-filesystem-based way to
> get cross-process mutexes on Darwin. We're looking for a performance
> boost above fcntl/flock.
You should hard-code posix semaphores for Darwin in apr_hints.m4. We
should not be playing around with the lock choice and affecting
multiple systems when we get specific platform knowledge we want to
exploit. apr_hints.m4 is for that specific platform knowledge.
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Jeff Trawick | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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