On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >> Anyone know if: >> >> # POSIX semaphores and cross-process pthread mutexes are not >> # used by default since they have less desirable behaviour when >> # e.g. a process holding the mutex segfaults. >> >> is still applicable, at least for posix sems? > > > AFAIK, the Solaris-specific recovery logic for cross-process pthread > mutexes has been working reliably for a long time, but with the current wind > direction APR is choosing fcntl(), which has sysdef implementations on that > ugh; "sysdef implications" > platform. > > no clues here about the POSIX semaphores >
