What new system calls do you want in BSD?

brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Thu Feb 8 14:08:12 AEST 1990


In article <7848 at pt.cs.cmu.edu> dstewart at fas.ri.cmu.edu (David B Stewart) writes:
> How about implementing good ol' semaphores, with a much simpler interface
> than Sys V.

Actually, I just built a simple threads library on top of my signal
library. Everything is shared. You get threadfork(), threadexit(),
threadup() and threaddown() for semaphores, and a few other calls.

It ain't Mach but it works.

---Dan



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