Re: light weight user level semaphores

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
19 Apr 2001 14:18:53 -0700


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> > I fail to see how this works across processes.
>
> It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed.

No, the point is that FS_create is *not* the one creating the shared
mapping. The user is explicitly doing this her/himself.

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