Subj : Re: Boss Told Me You Can't Use Semaphore, But I Have To Do Something
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Friesen
Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 01:06 pm

Frank Cusack wrote:

> Of course you can use a mutex (as opposed to semaphore) and is probably
> preferred except that process-shared mutexes aren't supported on Linux
> (unless very recently).

Process shared mutexes (and semas, and rwlocks, etc.) are all supported 
on Linux with NPTL-based threads.

Chris

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