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[Sean Casey]

In article <1238 at sjuvax.UUCP> jss at 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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