Just one more thing...

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Fri Feb 27 08:10:01 PST 2009


Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
> On 2009-02-27 09:38:02 +0100, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> 
> said:
> 
>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you upgrade to 10.5 ?
>>>
>>> It's only a few months left to "Snow Leopard",
>>> then we can play the same game all over again.
>>
>> Yeah, but 10.5 has working posix threads. It's doubtful whether 10.4 
>> is worth the effort.
> 
> the worst offender (semaphores) are broken also on 10.5, I had to 
> implement them on the top of mach semaphores in tango.

This isn't likely to change any time soon.  There is the old sys/sem.h 
or whatever (from the XOpen spec), but the interface just stinks.


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