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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:48:33 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Defining _POSIX_SEMAPHORES for cygwin
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:31:59AM -0500, Gerald S. Williams wrote:
>I would like to define _POSIX_SEMAPHORES in sys/features.h
>for Cygwin. According to POSIX, you define this when you
>support the semaphore API.
>
>We are now 99% of the way to having Python thread support
>for Cygwin. I got POSIX semaphore support added to Python's
>source base and tested it with Cygwin. Now we just have to
>indicate that Cygwin has them.
>
>The API is there and appears to work correctly. Is there
>any issue with making this change?

If you think it works and Robert concurs, then we should add it.

We'll need a patch, of course:  http://cygwin.com/contrib.html .

cgf