On 03/22/2015 10:38 PM, Nicholas Miell wrote: > On 03/22/2015 07:38 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I wrote a short man page documented some of the details of >> NPTL that might affect application developers. Review comments >> would be most welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael > > POSIX specifies that process-shared pthread_mutex_t's can be manipulated > by independent processes, however the AMD64 and i386 versions of the > mutex structures are incompatible and cannot be shared. > > This might be true of the other supposedly sharable primitives, I never > bothered to check the rest when I first noticed the problem with mutexes. Nicholas, Can you provide pointers to further information on this topic? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
