[Python-Dev] RE: POSIX thread code and Cygwin (original) (raw)

Gerald S. Williams gsw@agere.com
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 07:47:58 -0500

Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> Before POSIXSEMAPHORES is specified by default for > Cygwin, it will probably have to be shown that it is 100% > compliant with POSIX.

Please don't guess in such matters; this is not very convincing.

Sorry about the wording. I'm looking at ISO/IEC 9945-1-1996 (i.e., ANSI/IEEE Std 1003.1, the POSIX API spec), and the section on semaphores does give quite specific requirements that have to be met if you define _POSIX_SEMAPHORES.

I'll work with Jason and get _POSIX_SEMAPHORES defined in Cygwin or (if this isn't possible) present an alternative that doesn't imply POSIX support.

-Jerry

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