Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 4 Nov 2000 20:52:19 -0800 (PST) | From | dean gaudet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of lock_kernel()?(Was:Strange |
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > sysv semaphores have a very unfortunate negative feature -- if the admin > > kill -9's the server (impatient admins do this all the time) then you end > > up leaving a semaphore lying around. sysvsem don't have the usual unix > > Umm they have SEM_UNDO. Its a case of deeper magic
we use SEM_UNDO, that's not quite what i was worrying about. i was worrying about leaving a stale semaphore in the global semaphore table.
IPC_RMID causes the semaphore to be destroyed immediately, rather than after all the users are done.
-dean
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