On Wed, Jul 08 2020 19:19:38 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> This will require a libpthread major bump, and those are really
> painful!  So I'm not sure we should do this just for pshared
> semaphores which hardly anybody uses.

FWIW, I have an implementation of a jobserver for make(1) that uses
pshared semaphores that I intend to submit if this goes through (my
initial attempts used sockets, but that was tricky to get right). But
yes, there isn't a lot of software that uses them.

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