Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of lock_kernel()?(Was:Strange

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 04 2000 - 15:43:41 EST

> sysv semaphores have a very unfortunate negative feature -- if the admin
> kill -9's the server (impatient admins do this all the time) then you end
> up leaving a semaphore lying around. sysvsem don't have the usual unix

Umm they have SEM_UNDO. Its a case of deeper magic

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