[ANNOUNCE] libxshmfence 1.2

Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD.org
Sat Jan 3 02:03:12 PST 2015


On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 01:03:01AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> Thomas Klausner <wiz at NetBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > I'll file a bug report so NetBSD will hopefully provide these.
> > Is there a way libxshmfence can work without them?
> 
> The whole point is to build an inter-process synchronization mechanism,
> so you need something that *can* work across processes.
> 
> If you have Linux-compatible futexes, those would work.

I'm told NetBSD does have some support for these, but not the support
needed for this feature.

I've filed
http://gnats.netbsd.org/49529
let's see what happens.
 Thomas


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