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Goodbye semaphores?

Posted Jan 6, 2006 3:22 UTC (Fri) by stock (guest, #5849)
Parent article: Goodbye semaphores?

What about old source code which needs semaphores? What about old
binaries which need semaphores?

Do we really want to see linux become a eccentric vehicle like plan9 or
the GNU mach kernel?

Robert

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Goodbye semaphores?

Posted Jan 6, 2006 3:26 UTC (Fri) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]

These are semaphores inside the kernel; userspace can still use
semaphores.

Goodbye semaphores?

Posted Jan 7, 2006 14:40 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

the old sourcecode needs to be fixed, and well - we all know to what
extend the kernel supports binary code... :D

Goodbye semaphores?

Posted Jan 9, 2006 2:27 UTC (Mon) by stock (guest, #5849) [Link]

linux-abi is still used by me.

Goodbye semaphores?

Posted Jan 9, 2006 18:51 UTC (Mon) by MenTaLguY (guest, #21879) [Link]

If you're thinking of POSIX semaphores, those are something different; this change is part of the internal kernel APIs, not the userspace ABI...