[cpp-threads] RE: "Agenda" for august 23-25 concurrency meeting

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 8/31/06, Nick Maclaren <nmm1 at cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> I am not at all surprised that POSIX semaphores behave the same way,
> as I have reported ad tedium that it needs a memory model and doesn't

Well, doesn't x86/ia-32 also in need of a memory model? :-)

> have one.  Whether semaphores SHOULD be globally consistent is another
> matter - there are arguments both ways.

http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag-review/msg01962.html
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg08582.html

regards,
alexander.