Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: more on file \"attributes\" Message-ID: <480@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 17:56:39 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.480 Posted: Tue Aug 6 17:56:39 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 00:14:26 EDT References: <3403@decwrl.UUCP> <1238@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 > I enjoy using UNIX as a development environment, and I believe that > 99% of its ideas are in theory right, but it has a few shortcomings. > Others have noticed the process synchronization shortcomings. Has > anyone done anything about them? Yes, AT&T has semaphores, message queues, and record locking. Please don't implement a similar yet different facility; we have too many of those already.