On 02/14/2012 11:40 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote:
Look into the pthread man pages for info. I
Usual pthread_mutex() functions are designed for working within a single
process and thus will use Futex, if available and thus will not work
system-wide. I don't know if pthreadlib offers an option for system wide
Mutexes.
System 5 named semaphores (sem_open() and friends) are designed to work
system wide and (AFAI remember) don't need any userspace memory resources.
-Michael
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