"mini roadmap" for userland for 3.7-dev branch

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Wed Nov 27 11:37:32 PST 2013


On 11/22/2013 21:28, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:18 AM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:
>> ah, another one: semaphores
>>
>>
>> I'm starting to hit problems due to semaphores not being implemented on
>> DragonFly, so let's call this #11
> 
> I posted an implementation of sem_open / sem_close / sem_unlink() some
> time ago, that was not-strictly-POSIX-compliant, but was sufficient
> for Python's multiprocessing module to work; that may be worth
> resurrecting?
> 

It's worth a look, where did you post it?
What would it take to bring it up POSIX compliance?
(Sorry, I missed the post earlier).

John



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