From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20020116035456.13985.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] semaphores In-Reply-To: Message from "Russ Cox" of "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:44:21 EST." <20020116034426.F0943199EE@mail.cse.psu.edu> From: Scott Schwartz Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:54:56 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3de45f74-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 A previous edition's malloc used a pipe with a byte in it as a semaphore. I thought that was a lovely solution, given shared file descriptors.