-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >> Another possibility is to just use SysV semaphores instead of POSIX >> semaphores. >> Then you can use the ipcs(1) command to manually cleanup. BerkeleyDB uses >> SysV shared memory when you specify a shared memory environment and it >> appears that SysV semaphore support is actually more widespread than POSIX >> semaphores.
Just to mention that at least on HPUX, Posix semaphores are more efficient than SysV ones. ++Cyrille
