On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> Nick is right, many of the BSDs and FreeBSD up until fairly recently >> did not have named shared semaphore support. Still yet, the behavior >> is broken on some OSes such as OS X which you have to work around. > > The core locking support only uses anonymous semaphores (they don't need to be > shared accross processes obviously). > > Regards > > Antoine.
That's what I get for replying from an iphone over morning coffee. See also http://semanchuk.com/philip/sysv_ipc/ for Philip Semanchuk semaphore/IPC work as well. Given both multiprocessing and Philip's work are concerned about the shared aspects, I think you're right - FBSD and others support the posix semaphores for non-ipc stuff ok AFAIK (recent benchmark http://www.ioremap.net/node/216). jesse _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com