From: frank_broic...@my-deja.com
Subject: System V Semphores and Linux
Date: 2000/11/29
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Hi,
over the last few months I developed an IPC-Library which encapsulates the
system calls needed to access semaphores, shared memory, pipes, and so on
(based on Steven's book). It is designed to support either System V or POSIX.
The basic problem is the support for Linux _and_ SGI's IRIX. IRIX is causing
no problems, but porting the Lib to Linux reveales some strange behaviour.
Basically porting the System V implementation to Linux should work, but on
some maschines it only seems to run. Getting a semphore using semget returns
a "normal" identifier and all operations on this semaphore cause no errors,
but when I look at the IPC state using ipcs then I'm told that there is no
semaphore allocated not to mention that all semaphore operations have no
effect. To top all this: on some maschines it works.
All works fine on my private maschine Suse Linux 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16), it does
not work on a similar maschine at work and on maschines with Kernel 2.2.14
and (I know it's old) 2.0.36.
Does anybody know what is causing this strange incompatibilities?
THNX in advance
Frank
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From: "Geoff Winkless" <geoff-at-farmline-dot-...@127.0.0.1>
Subject: Re: System V Semphores and Linux
Date: 2000/11/29
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<frank_broic...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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: Hi,
:
: over the last few months I developed an IPC-Library which encapsulates the
: system calls needed to access semaphores, shared memory, pipes, and so on
: (based on Steven's book). It is designed to support either System V or
POSIX.
: The basic problem is the support for Linux _and_ SGI's IRIX. IRIX is
causing
: no problems, but porting the Lib to Linux reveales some strange behaviour.
: Basically porting the System V implementation to Linux should work, but on
: some maschines it only seems to run. Getting a semphore using semget
returns
: a "normal" identifier and all operations on this semaphore cause no
errors,
: but when I look at the IPC state using ipcs then I'm told that there is no
: semaphore allocated not to mention that all semaphore operations have no
: effect. To top all this: on some maschines it works.
Make sure you have IPC support compiled into the kernel.
Geoff