On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:29:10PM +0100, MeDon wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:04:03AM +0100, MeDon wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >>yes it's on i386 architecture. Both program I mentioned use <sys/sem.h>. > >>I don't know much about it, sorry. I'm sending you a semtool.c and > >>semstat.c from "LINUX Programmer's Guide". More on MPICH problem could > >>be seen on http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/buglist-tbl.html. > >> > >>Regards > >> Ondrej Medek > > > > > >They don't even compile; and I know that it's not a bug that > ><sys/sem.h> doesn't provide union semun - it's a bizarre quirk of the > >standards. > > > > > > I think you're right. Red Hat 7.2. uses exactly the same header files. > But what do you think about the sentence (MPICH) "One user found that > the include file /usr/include/linux/sem.h (used by the kernel) and > /usr/include/sys/sem.h and /usr/include/sys/ipc.h were not consistent, > causing programs using semaphores to fail. If you have this problem, you > need to correct your installation of Linux."
They are different interfaces, they aren't necessarily the same. One is the glibc interface and the other is the syscall interface. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
