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From:	"Conrad Scott" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com>
To:	<cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	System-wide mutexes and pthreads
Date:	Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:27:40 +0100
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Looking at the current pthread implementation on cygwin, it seems that it
doesn't support any system-wide synchronization mechanisms (i.e. none of the
synchronization primitives allow PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED and there are no
named semaphores). Before I go and use win32 semaphores in the cygserver, is
there something I'm missing?

Cheers.

// Conrad

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