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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:20:10 -0300
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Subject: Re: 1.7.0 sem_open
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>> =C2=A0 The persistence of the semaphore also works for you?
>>
>> =C2=A0 For me, using the unpatched version, (not the CVS version), the
>> persistence works some times only. At other times the semaphore
>> disappears with the Control c.
>
> The semaphore is backed by a file on disk. =C2=A0If you don't call
> sem_unlink one way or the other, the semaphore persists.

  Nice to say, but why it is not always this way?

  I should create an example to run my code some times and always kill
it until that the semaphore does not persist. It is a nice task for
tonight.

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