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[Doug Gwyn <gwyn>]

> 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.