Maucci, Cyrille wrote: > -----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.
I'm also reminded that there is no defined behavior for SysV semaphores in threads, they are only speciried for inter-process synchronization. So forget that... -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
