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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
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 15:17:08 1985
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Reply-To: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Organization: The White Tower @ The Univ. of KY
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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.


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