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From: r_anderson@clyppr.enet.dec.com (Rick Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Unify - Lockmanager
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Date: 5 Nov 90 19:17:10 GMT
References: <707@safn2.UUCP> <1990Nov3.113849@turtle.Berkeley.EDU> <35571@cup.portal.com>
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In article <707@safn2.UUCP>, rey@safn2.UUCP (rey) writes:
> Are both semaphores and shared memory necessary, or only shared memory?
> My docs are not consistant on this. I have only shared memory enabled, am
> I loosing some capability?
Only "shared memory" is necessary for proper UNIFY operation (no SysV
semaphores
are used).
Rick (ex-Unify)

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