On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:16:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In general, most platforms don't really support cross process pthread > mutex's. Even those that have PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED tend to not work > properly. For example, AIX has that defined, but they don't really > support pthread mutex's cross processes.
Is this something that we can place in either the hints file (for those platforms that are lying to us), or can we perform some AC_TRY_RUN test to see whether it works. I believe that pthread_mutex_t is going to be the best cross-process locking choice IF the platform does what it says it does (which, I believe Solaris does). -- justin
