On Monday 08 November 2010 00:34:36 David Bolen wrote: > Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> writes: > > You wrote that the "POSIX" semaphore are very limited. Do it mean that > > there is another kind of semaphore will an higher limit? > > Well, I think the SYSV semaphores are either less limited or at least > more adjustable. They've certainly been around longer in FreeBSD. > The POSIX semaphore support is not enabled by default in FreeBSD 7, so > I added loader.conf stuff to load them (as part of issue7272). I > don't think the Python internals are using the SYSV semaphores though. > SYSV functions have no underscore (e.g., semget) whereas POSIX do > (sem_get). Also, I believe only POSIX has named semaphores.
I created the issue http://bugs.python.org/issue10348 to suggest this. Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
