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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
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Subject: Re: What new system calls do you want in BSD?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 03:08:12 GMT
References: <12157@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <7848@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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In article <7848@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dstewart@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