Re: Semaphores and threads anomaly and bug?

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Nov 04 2003 - 12:31:24 EST



On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, John M Collins wrote:
>
> I know this isn't defined anywhere but the seems to be an ambiguity and
> discrepancy between versions of Unix and Linux over threads and semaphores.
>
> Do the "SEM_UNDO"s get applied when a thread terminates or when the
> "whole thing" terminates?

It's entirely up to you. That's what CLONE_SYSVSEM is supposed to
determine.

However, CLONE_SYSVSEM is fairly recent, and I think you will need to use
the new threading libraries to see it.

Linus

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