Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: light weight user level semaphores | Date | Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:38:23 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> can libraries use fast semaphores behind the back of the user? They might > well want to use the semaphores exactly for things like memory allocator > locking etc. But libc certainly cant use fd's behind peoples backs.
libc is entitled to, and most definitely does exactly that. Take a look at things like gethostent, getpwent etc etc.
Alan
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