RE: Kernel 2.x POSIX Compliance/Conformance...

[Torrey Hoffman]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 12:18, Randazzo, Michael wrote:
> Where are the kernel calls defined for locks and semaphores?
> 
> How come the kernel headers don't define Posix.4 
> semaphores (_POSIX_SEMAPHROES) or Posix itself
> (_POSIX_VERSION is undefined)
> 

I think you need to read "Linux Device Drivers".  If you don't want to
buy it, you can read it for free online.

http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/

Chapter 9, pages 284-286 discusses locking and atomic operations.


-- 
Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@xxxxxxxxx>

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