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Re: _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED
- To: Ye Liu <yliu at tibco dot com>
- Subject: Re: _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED
- From: Ross Johnson <rpj at ise dot canberra dot edu dot au>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:02:04 +1000
- CC: win32-pthread <pthreads-win32 at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: University of Canberra, Information Sciences and Engineering
- References: <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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