"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM> writes:
>> What I'd like to look at sometime soon is using POSIX semaphores
>> instead of SysV semaphores. But we need stateful semaphores,
>> not signals.
> Conditional variables seem to be more portable
Really? Which standard are they specified in?
I have no intention of removing the SysV sem support, mind you;
I just think it might be good to have an alternative implementation
that relies on a more modern standard ...
regards, tom lane