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From: Ross Johnson <rpj@ise.canberra.edu.au>
To: Ye Liu <yliu@tibco.com>
Cc: win32-pthread <pthreads-win32@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B81F95C.D1CDF8D0@ise.canberra.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B7F5E16.108435E3@tibco.com>

Hi Ye,

That's correct. Although Win32 has sync primitives that can be
shared (named mutexes etc), I think we need a POSIX shared
memory implementation before we can implement POSIX style
_POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED mutexes, CVs, semaphores, and
barriers.

Ross

Ye Liu wrote:
> 
> Greets,
> 
> When I look at the latest code, I find that _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED
> is not implemented. May I know if there is any particular reason for
> that? (i.e., win32 does not support such a feature.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --ye
> 
> --
> Ye Liu
> Tel(O) 650-846-5228

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-08-20 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-18 23:38 _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED Ye Liu
2001-08-20 23:02 ` Ross Johnson [this message]

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