Re: Atomic semaphore in 'C' on HP UX I probably should have said that I need it to be an int or char or long, and not a structure.Test and set is what I need, but if not there then I guess I don't have it.I have used in the past for some systems (that also do not ...
such as Linux and some Unix versions, which operate in a shared multi-processor environment, apply software kernel locks to secure that only one process at a time has access to a certain critical program code region. Linux applies two types of kernel locks: so-called spin locks and so-calle...
When a semaphore is created, the kernel generates a unique semaphore ID and assigns it to the created semaphore by either of the two methods. First, after the semaphore is invoked by means of the semaphore creation method, the semaphore ID is stored in a user-provided location. Second, the...
The kernel/xpp/xpd.h includes <asm/semaphore.h> As of Linux kernel version 2.6.26, the asm/semaphore.h has been deprecated, favoring an include of <linux/semaphore.h> instead. When attempting to compile zaptel in Linux 2.6.27, as the current sources are, we get an error 'unable to ...