Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!sean From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: more on file \"attributes\" Message-ID: <2029@ukma.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 15:17:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2029 Posted: Tue Aug 6 15:17:08 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 00:18:58 EDT References: <3403@decwrl.UUCP> <1238@sjuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) Organization: The White Tower @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 18 In article <1238@sjuvax.UUCP> jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) writes: >Mr. Campbell has one point, at least, which should not be ignored. UNIX is >badly in need of some sort of semaphore structure for use between >processes which do not know about each other. Without this facility, >etc... >To my knowledge, all of the database systems providing for reliable >record access do this by circumnavigating UNIX, which seems to me to >be a bit of a waste. For real. The ingres we run here has a daemon running all the time just so it can be guaranteed atomic locks! Kludge city. -- - Sean Casey UUCP: sean@ukma.UUCP or - Department of Mathematics {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean - University of Kentucky ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA